1. Saying scientists "believe" in climate change is religion nonsense. Science is not about belief. It is about evidence.
2. The field is not a field that allows unequivocal knowledge. Claims of certainty are simply false.
3. Attempts to suppress or downplay uncertainties are attempts to deceive.
4. They are settled by politics.
5. So when you say these papers did not 'stick' all that really means is they said things that were politically inconvenient for many scientist
6. It is simply not possible to show that the skeptical papers are definitively wrong. It all comes down to the subjective opinion of human beings which are rarely reliable.
1. Fine, I picked a bad word. But my point stands.
2. Let's say they are convinced then.
3. It's entirely appropriate to do so if the opposition to accepted theory is given too much credence and stops us from addressing a problem.
4. That's horseshit. There are two realms: science and politics. The politics does not solve the science. If it takes people 200 years to believe it, it doesn't mean that the science is impacted. Evolution is another example of that.
5. No - the scientists didn't buy the argument, for example, that the sun was behind it. This was one of the past theories from the 1990s. You turn into a conspiracy theory when the result displeases you.
6. Sure but these are experts and it's not 'politics'. They have a duty to be objective. There is a right-wing meme that objectivity isn't possible and I believe that is 'projection'