Sarcasm failed to translate, "scientific consensus" is a goofy euphemism for a messaging campaign that has nothing to do with science. You are completely right

Sarcasm failed to translate, "scientific consensus" is a goofy euphemism for a messaging campaign that has nothing to do with science. You are completely right about the disagreement between scientists at the time, with many pointing out the fact that we couldn't accurately predict these changes - so we had absolutely no hope of attributing cause to effect until that changed. Still good advice.