SCIENCE! Global Warming and the Religion of the Left

"I'm just not sure that global warming is as certain as they say..."
"NO! You're wrong because SCIENCE!" 

 That pretty much sums up how I feel every single global warming debate goes. The "science," you see, is "settled." To the left, any "settled" science is now gospel: entirely off the table in a debate. If you have an argument with a widely-held scientific belief, you are a "skeptic," or worse, a "denier."

But ironically, skepticism is the very foundation of science. Indeed, without skepticism we'd still think the Earth is flat and the Sun revolves around it. Were these not widely-held tenants of the "science" of the age? "Science" once held that bleeding patients was an all-purpose treatment for a huge number of ailments.

But skepticism prevailed. People —scientists — asked questions: often risking their very lives in search of the truth. This value has been ingrained into the Scientific Method and science itself. Skepticism is not an enemy of science unless science has a goal other than gaining knowledge.

The moment science gains an agenda, it is no longer science. Rather it is something very different: religion. And, with any religion, espousing beliefs that conflict with the accepted theology is heresy.

But science has come to a consensus, right? Everybody knows that like...98% of scientists agree!
The funny thing about statistics is how easy they are to manipulate. And, when the most widely-cited study is made up of about 77 scientists, that "consensus" becomes a bit questionable.

What my entire argument comes down to is that science (and the population at-large) should embrace skeptics rather than demeaning them as backwards-thinking. If an idea is right, it will be proven right time and time again. It not, it should be allowed to die.