photoOne of the many eye-catching slogans at the Albuquerque “tea party” on Wednesday was “Global warming is a socialist scam.” Versions of it were on several hand-held signs. Those signs were still in mind this morning when the Pew Research Center released the results of a recent analysis (“Faith in Global Warming“) of views on global warming among people with different religious affiliations.

Bottom line: Those who do not claim an affiliation with a particular church are most likely to say that global warming is caused by human actions.

From the report: “The unaffiliated (58%) are the most likely among the religious groups studied to say there is solid evidence the earth is warming because of human activity. White evangelical Protestants are the most likely to say there is no solid evidence the earth is warming (31%), and the least likely to believe that humans have contributed to heating up the planet (34%). While only 39% of black Protestants say global warming is a result of human activity, they are, however, the least likely of the religions studied to deny global warming is occurring (15%).”

Those last two figures are interesting, aren’t they?

Moreover, according to the survey, black Protestants are most likely to say that global warming is a naturally occurring event, more than twice as likely as white evangelical Protestants.

It would be interesting to get some hard data on tea party participants and their beliefs about global warming. Hear that, Pew?

Here’s a chart from the analysis: