While it's true that science internally does not need or want a consensus, there must be some mechanism to convert science back into action recommendations for

While it's true that science internally does not need or want a consensus, there must be some mechanism to convert science back into action recommendations for non-scientific life, unless we want science to be an entirely hermetic activity with no outputs. Observing if there is a (close) consensus among scientists seems like one way of achieving this, wouldn't you agree?