But the IPCC in its last major assessment has still not put the human fingerprint on global warming and the report was filled with numerous caveats. The situation has not changed much since then. But these individuals are fairly few and far between. The general consensus is that we expect to see major changes and that we're beginning to see them, and that over the next ten, twenty years, we'll see them accelerate. It cannot be stressed to much that science doesn't work by consensus.
Science is evidence based.
Therefore the statement about skeptics being few and far between is irrelevant. The statement that there will be major change and that they will accelerate is, as we have seen, highly uncertain. This was not made clear. It's conceivable that could happen, unless these international agreements take bite fairly quickly, sometime in the next decade. But note the aforementioned calculation by Wigley on the negligible impact of the Kyoto Protocol on temperatures.