Climate Central: When it comes to the science of climate change, Pope Francis' environmentally focused encyclical makes the grade, experts said Thursday.
Francis makes clear in the document that humanity bears most of the blame for the warming of the planet and he lays out the main findings of climate science -- that greenhouse gases are causing global temperatures to rise, that sea levels are also rising, that extreme weather events are becoming worse, and that polar ice is melting, further imperiling the planet....