Glad you like the analogy!
In terms of the rest of your post: I think that there have been some scientists studying Climate Change who have been less than honest with the data, to be sure, but the majority view still stands. The problem is that predicting the future trends has been seen to be very difficult. I can't really go into more detail that that because, honestly, I'm not even close an expert on how the models work and what their underlying assumptions are. My interest is mainly in how clear it is that human activities will have some significant effect on the environment. Be it through large-scale deforestation, human-driven extinctions, the invention of new gases, the large-scale extraction of methane and Carbon that was otherwise locked away in oil... while the future is uncertain, our impact shouldn't be, and it should be obvious that we ought to try to do something to reverse our impact.