If consensus really did trump science, we'd still be living on a flat Earth with the Universe revolving around us. (Of course, we'd have plenty of Flogiston so I guess it would be OK.)
Science, real science, eventually wins out in the end. But it took hundreds of years for the geocentric cosmology to eventually be totally discarded. Flat earthers are still around. This GWBS is an issue that has no provable absolutes, so it’s perfect for reaping billions of dollars from uneducated, ignorant, stupid, apathetic and totally disinterested peoples all across the globe. It is the perfect excuse for every tax, law, rule, regulation, ban, phase-out and elimination of every bit of freedom and independence that exists. The governments, and the socialists/communists who run them, have found, at long last, the Holy Grail of unbridled power over the people. Do everything in the name of Global Warming/Climate Change. Deride, ridicule, marginalize and declare personna non grata anybody who dares to utter any anti Global Warming theory, data or explanation. Dissent will not be tolerated. Declare all who don’t conform to the status quo a nut or idiot or not in the mainstream. Science? Data? Objective evidence? Fringe elements, agents of the “Big Oil” companies is all they are, and thus can be disregarded. Any thing that is non compliant is shoved aside, buried, twisted and ridiculed. The planet must be saved, but saved for whom? The only ones not affected the elites and they are in control.........for now......