There was never a consensus among climatologists that global warming is good theory. Newspapers and some politicians decided it was fact. And a vocal group of climatologists got a lot of money for writing reports that supported the theory.
A hypothesis only becomes a theory when it has been verified by reality, not how many people agree with it.
Popular opinion and the newspapers may think that a theory is verified. But that is not the way science works. A theory is never verified. All you can do is test the theory by taking measurements. If the measurements come within some tolerance of the predicted results, then you can say the measurements support the theory. But no theory is ever verified. It you ever wrote up a report in a physics lab in college and said your experiment verified a theory, you would get an F.
“A theory is never verified.”
There was a hypothesis that heavier than air human flight was possible. At the same time the Wright Brothers were flying, the “academic” scientific community were writing prestigious papers proving it was not possible. Perhaps you are not convinced the “hypothesis” that heavier-than-air human flight is possible has been verified.
By the way, a “theory” is a hypothesis that has been proven. So long as it is not “verified” it is only a hypothesis, not a theory.
Perhaps you believe the hypothesis that communications signals could be transmitted to and from Earth by a relay station launched into orbit around the earth’s equator at a distance of about 22,300 miles, has not been verified. At that altitude, the “satellite” would maintain a stationary position over the earth, by maintaining an orbital speed of approximately 6000 miles per hour. But of course that hypothesis has never been verified either.
And of course the hypothesis that signals could be transmitted through the atmosphere electromagnetically has never been verified. Nor has the hypothesis that anisthesia could be used to perform painless surgery.
But for those who prefer to live in a world of total skepticism, nothing can ever be verified or proved. What a horrible way to live.
Hank