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Actually, as an engineer a "consensus" is important to me. While it is always possible that the "consensus" has gotten it wrong, the more researchers who can replicate and confirm each other's work from a variety of approaches the greater the probabilty that their hypothesis is correct. My main point, however, is that most (if not all )of the researchers who support anthropogenic climate change are hard-working honest people who are using the best tools available to them to answer a difficult question. I don't think their research is politically driven. That's all.