You are spot on. Climate change is real, but drastic change of anything often leads to questioning the money trail.

Also, there is no "scientific consensus” on climate change. A simple online search for research papers on ‘climate change fallacy’ will point to the other side of the coin.

Typically literature reviews tend to have confirmation bias and I think this seems to be more apparent in climate change research. Circular reasoning is also common due to bias and activism (and there is a paper on this), where researchers' prior beliefs shape their methodology. There will always be 2 sides of the coin when it comes to research. Even the discovery of atoms went through multiple definitions over time, based on new evidence, knowledge and insights.

If people are really concerned about climate change, they would reduce coal production - is it still at 80% usage ? And maybe push for nuclear clean energies. The solutions proposed often seem very selective and suspicious.