Really interesting that apparently so many people here are professional climate researchers.
After all the false models and numbers in recent years, I have fully internalized the saying: "Never trust any statistics you didn't fake yourself." And I do not presume to know what is going on with the climate. But as always, only experts are asked and their studies published that take a certain direction. Others are no longer discussed.
I am in favor of hearing all opinions on all topics and consider the citizen intelligent enough to form their own opinion. In reality, however, there is pre-filtering and an independent formation of opinion is no longer possible.
Just be concrete: Science says that the temperature is rising historically fast due to human CO2 emissions. Right? Wrong?
Evidence includes knowledge about the properties of the CO2 molecule, direct temperature measurements, and spectroscopy of the atmosphere from both the ground and above (weather balloons, satellites).
Up to this point, just measurements, no models yet.
And then simply the belief that the 1st law of thermodynamics must hold true...
The models are then used for something else: to show IF-THEN scenarios for the future – with an uncertainty range.
Regarding dissenting opinions within science: They are not heard because they sometimes keep repeating things that were refuted partly 100 years ago.
It is again the fallacy that freedom of opinion would have something to lose in science: NO. Cleanly refuted stuff gets thrown out. That is why they have no weight: They have no evidence for themselves, but a lot against them.