Money saves lives
A number of the world's most eminent scientists -- who don't buy into the "consensus" human-induced alarmism that Al Gore touts with regard to climate change -- have written a letter that everyone should read. In short, the scientists say that the best way to save lives due to climate change isn't to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Instead, creating wealth so that people can afford to adapt to changing climate is the key.
The current UN focus on "fighting climate change," as illustrated in the Nov. 27 UN Development Programme's Human Development Report, is distracting governments from adapting to the threat of inevitable natural climate changes, whatever forms they may take. National and international planning for such changes is needed, with a focus on helping our most vulnerable citizens adapt to conditions that lie ahead. Attempts to prevent global climate change from occurring are ultimately futile, and constitute a tragic misallocation of resources that would be better spent on humanity's real and pressing problems.
Read the entire thing, and remember: At one time the consensus was that the world was flat.
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I'm not sure your last point is true. Since Aristotle, the consensus view has been that the earth is round. Before Aristotle, there were various opinions, and I don't think any of them were held by a consensus. A good book on this is Jeffrey Burton Russell's "Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians."