What I don't understand is how Climate change has become a social and popular question.
We have nothing to do on that question. This is not our business.
Are people arguing in their daily life of the relevance of using ethanol as a solvant in an organic synthesis? No of course not! They don't give a fuck and even if they'd do they know they don't have the skills required to understand fully the process. They let this question for the chimists.
So why don't we just stop discussing climate change and listen to the scientists results?
The science behind it may be science, but a lay-person's faith in it would be religious expression. By being sceptical and questioning the self-styled experts in the field, lay people are actually being more scientific than they would otherwise be if they blindly believed the paid scientific professionals.
Besides, from a philosophical point of view, science is a personal endeavour where a person seeks objective knowledge about the world. Even incredulity or emotional reactions could be thought of as a kind of experimentation, where the participants exert pressure on the system, and then they find out what happens in response.
The beginnings of science was not with a rigid caste system in which only some could voice an opinion on a problem. Quite the contrary. Look at