Really.
I have consistently evaluated and referenced actual data on issues like glacier melting, sea ice levels, prehistoric temperature and CO2 cycles, solar variations, and many other things. I don't have the background for heavy statistical grinding, but it doesn't take a PhD to see two numbers and figure out if one of them is larger than the other, or to find exceptions to the rule.
If the "consensus" is working primarily from "argument by authority" and excommunicating those who point out problems with it, that says more about the "consensus" than it does the data.