She is right to question this so called "near-concensus", because that is a downright LIE media keeps repeating while media refuses to give any air time at all to the MAJORITY of scientists in the scientific community who reject the claim of human caused "global warming", or that there is in fact any global warming going on at all.
Localized weather anomalies do NOT indicate "global warming" or an advancing ice age. They never have and never will.
Beyond that (determining whether we are experiencing a trend of global warming or periods of atypical warmth), it has yet to be established that mankind is (A) responsible for any climate change and (B) mankind has the ability to deliberately change climate (by changing environmental policies).
It is ABSOLUTELY CLEAR from the historical record that the Earth has undergone a series of radical shifts in global temperatures (both periods of warmth and cool “ice ages”) that predate the existence of man. There is also historical proof that the climate has undergone temperature shifts during the history of mankind on the planet Earth prior to the industrial/petrochemical revolutions.
This is the rooster claiming that he makes the sun rise every morning by crowing. Stark raving socialism in the name of junk science.