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Given a field with no expert consensus, where you can't just check things yourself, shouldn't the rational response be uncertainty?
I don't think global warming fits this description, though. AFAIK domain experts almost all broadly agree.
The devil is in the details. They "broadly agree" on what? I don't think there's that much consensus on forecasts of future climate change.
Yes. This. And the details aren't trivial. They make a huge difference in policy. From "do nothing" to "reduce all growth and progress immediately or we go extinct".