What It’s Like to Be an Evangelical Climate Scientist

Jessica Moerman doesn’t want evangelicals to dismiss climate change as a purely “liberal” concern.
Illustration by Natalie Foss

JESSICA MOERMAN SPENT years in Malaysian caves and Kenyan lake beds unearthing clues about ancient climate. But when she speaks about the climate change we’re experiencing today she takes a different approach: She begins with scripture.

Moerman, 38, is both a trained climate scientist and an evangelical Christian who espouses a faith of action, not just talk. “I am a climate scientist because of my faith,” she told me.

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