This paper presents a comprehensive effort to analyze the relationship between Evangelical Protestant identity and religiosity along with socioeconomic characteristics, political predisposition, and extreme weather events on the one hand, and opinions toward global warming on the other. Using survey data from the Pew Research Center from 2006–2013 and the 2016 American National Election Study merged with extreme weather data from the Center for Disease and Control from 2005–2016, several major findings stand out. First, Evangelical Protestants are less likely to believe in the existence and seriousness of global warming than others. Second, those who are more religious are less likely to view global warming as human caused and a serious problem than their less-religious counterparts. Lastly, the effects of extreme weather represented by heavy precipitation and extreme heat on one’s perceptions of global warming’s existence, cause, and seriousness are largely absent. We suspect that the public awareness of extreme weather events being linked with climate change has been heightened in recent years. More studies using data after 2016 are warranted to examine how extreme weather determines public perceptions of global warming.

本文提出了一项全面的工作，一方面要分析福音派新教徒的身份与宗教信仰之间的关系，一方面要分析社会经济特征，政治倾向和极端天气事件，另一方面还要分析全球变暖的观点。将皮尤研究中心（Pew Research Center）2006-2013年的调查数据和2016年美国全国选举研究与疾病和控制中心（Centers of Disease and Control）2005-2016年的极端天气数据相结合，得出了几个主要发现。首先，福音派新教徒比其他人更不相信全球变暖的存在和严重性。其次，与宗教信仰程度较低的人相比，宗教信仰较高的人不太可能将全球变暖视为人为造成的严重问题。最后，以降雨和极端高温为代表的极端天气对人们对全球变暖的存在，成因和严重性的认识几乎没有。我们怀疑近年来公众对极端天气事件与气候变化有关的认识已经提高。有必要使用2016年以后的数据进行更多研究，以研究极端天气如何决定公众对全球变暖的看法。