Why conservative Christians don't believe in climate change

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 19-30

  Zaleha, Bernard Daley ^a   Szasz, Andrew ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Christians; climate change; evangelicals; Southern Baptists; stewardship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940737567     PISSN: 00963402     EISSN: 19383282     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0096340215599789     Document Type: Article

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