Now that scientists themselves are saying that it looks likely that the sun will be entering a solar minimum, a period of time when there will be zero sunspots, beginning sometime between 2017 and 2019, it looks like we'll be entering a period of global cooling in the 2020s and 2030s. Looks like the sun is the single largest factor in whether our climate is warming or cooling, not man-made gasses.

Des Moines Deacon -- agreed about your correlation of statistics and the concern about the willful ignorance of many evangelicals. However, sociologists had better pay attention to the EEO (that their university likely holds to) if they don't want to end up in a lawsuit. Read: http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/religion.cfm

Of course academics are leery of hiring evangelicals. Look at the previous stat on global warming. 41% of pastors disagree that global warming exists and that humans activity contributes to global warming. Over 97% of scientists accept global warming and human contribution. The National Academy of Science has accepted it for years. Fox-based believers, however, still doubt. Why should universities hire a bunch of flat-earthers? Perhaps the goal of these doubters is to hasten the destruction of the earth. So far, so good.