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Pope Francis' much ballyhooed encyclical on the environment is, unfortunately, riddled with error, unsound science and unwarranted visions of an imminent apocalypse generated to a large extent by free market economics. Like so much information spread by radical environmentalists, the encyclical makes numerous assertions that are either false or dubious, at best. Let's examine some of the more egregious flaws in the encyclical: 1) The encyclical states, "A very solid scientific consensus indicates that we are presently witnessing a disturbing warming of the climatic system." It's true that there's a consensus that the earth warmed about 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit over the past century or so, but whether this is "disturbing" – or even unusual – is a matter of great uncertainty, even among participants in the UN's alarmist Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In April, Philip Lloyd, who has served as an IPCC Lead Author, published a peer-reviewed paper that found that over the past 8,000 years temperature has varied an average of 1.7°F.https://climatechangedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/images_pics8_francis.jpg