Having read through the latest encyclical from the Pope, Steven W. Mosher of The New York Post is dismayed at how many groundless assertions it makes.

From a strictly scientific point of view, Laudato Si is an embarrassment.

I’m not talking about the much ballyhooed support the encyclical gives to climate change. The problem lies in other questionable claims it makes about the “environmental crisis,” and “the symptoms of sickness evident in the soil, in the water, in the air, and in all forms of life.”

Here are some of the fictions related in Chapter One of the encyclical, which is entitled “What is Happening to Our Common Home”:

On the issue of water, for example, the encyclical claims that “One particularly serious problem is the quality of water available to the poor…the quality of available water is constantly diminishing.”

But according to the Millennium Development Goals 2014 Report, “Access to an improved drinking water source became a reality for 2.3 billion people” over the past 20 years. This United Nations report rightly celebrates the fact that “the target of halving the proportion of people without access to an improved drinking water source was achieved in 2010, five years ahead of schedule.”

Read the article “ANALYSIS: Do the Pope and I Live on the Same Planet?” on nypost.com.