That alleged consensus is and always was bullshit. Hammer the data through the hole and throw out what doesn't fit, redifine who counts, etc. Just like altering climate data and cherry picking it to come up with the whole AGW crock.
It's no more "science" than Fauci.
It's charlatanry, started to push the Midwest Carbon Exchange, which stood to make (literally) trillions of dollars for the likes of George Soros, Al Gore, and Maurice Strong if they could have gotten the legislation passed to require carbon credits.
Industry abandoned America in the face of that trend, and the continuing climate doomsday predictions and propaganda have wreaked their havoc on this country.