The cartoon is a classic wheeze used by people trying to shut down an argument. It may be funny (if you find political jokes funny) but it does little to address the debate. Now here is the rub - I think your last line is mistaken. I do not claim to know more about climate science than scientists. But I do know these things:
1. As the Brian Durrant article states, experts in their own field are claiming perfect knowledge, when they cannot explain the questions posed in the article re: solar weather patterns and historic weather patterns that show that climate change is caused by human beings. Until that counter-argument is answered, they cannot claim perfect knowledge. What they have is a theory that is highly questionable. And if they are expert with perfect knowledge they should be able to answer those questions. They can't. Therefore it is not conclusive, and therefore not a scientific argument. Science does not only use data to support an argument. It should also answer all challenged questions with evidence, without resorting to name-calling such as "deniers". That isn't scientific.
2. Politics requires "majority or consensus". Religion uses faith-based arguments such as "I believe" or "denier". Neither of those religion nor political arguments win a scientific debate. But climate is supposed to be scientific. Therefore, if you follow Karl Popper's theory on science, it is based on "Falsification" via conducting tests. In all fields of science Karl Popper's "Falsification" and testing of logic is accepted as the correct approach - except in the field of climate change it seems. So when counter arguments or counterfactuals are presented the arguments have to be falsified. So for example, the argument presented by climate change scientists is:
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Rising temperatures correlate with man-made industrialisation, therefore man-made industrialisation caused rising temperatures, and here is the temperature charts data to prove it" is the logical presentation of the argument.
Alternatively we see:
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Ice caps melting and rising sea levels correlate with man-made industrialisation, therefore man-made industrialisation caused Ice caps melting and rising sea levels, and here is the sea level data to prove it"
I see this in poorly presented research papers & economics a lot: "A rises with B, therefore B caused A". What you have is a correlation, but no proof of cause.
But if we know that solar cycles on other planets are in play where humans do not exist, and we know that there has been global warming of the Sahara and flooding 4000 years ago, in a time of non-industrialisation, we have a "falsification" argument. A hole in the hypothesis. The logical argument is therefore failing the test on causation, and the logic is falsified by example of heating and global flooding which falls outside the test data set of industrialisation by humans, then it has to be explained. By the very experts they claim to be. And as it stands, as it cannot be explained, then as Karl Popper said - it should be treated as an "open question", not a "concluded argument".
Karl Popper - Falsification of Scientific Argument
https://www.simplypsychology.org/kar...proven%20false.
These climate scientists are therefore making a rod for their own back. Because the fact that climate scientists are not dealing with the counterfactuals in a
scientific way, and not treating it with the "open question" status that it merits, and responding with
political phraseology such as "We have a consensus", or
faith-based language such as "believer / denier", creates the cynicism amongst sceptical scientists and the persistent questioning around the subject that we now see.
So Bob, as you can see, I do not claim to be a scientific expert. But I do know the difference between how religious, politics, and science works. I can see that the scientists are not addressing legitimate questions in a scientific way. I also see the grifters that are pushing climate change agenda are making a fortune out of it. I do not need to be a scientist to know that much, and it is sufficient for me to adopt a sceptical stance not to be hoodwinked unless I can be convinced otherwise. Nor does anyone else. But I would expect scientists to be behave like scientists, and give scientific answers to legitimate and sceptical scientific questions, presented by other scientists in their field - whether in the minority or not. That is their job.