Comment Re: They don't drop to 1% though. (Score 1) 444
Continental drift. When Wegener proposed it in 1912 he was laughed at. It was considered a lunatic fringe theory. When it was again proposed with minor changes in the 1960s with the help of computer models it convinced maybe half the scientists at the convention barely becoming consensus. When it's slightly altered successor plate tectonics came along in 1988 it became the absolute dominant theory and static continents went from absolute consensus to the lunatic fringe that moving continents had occupied since the 16th century.
There are plenty of others. Lamarckian inheritance went from common knowledge to discredited theory to partly vindicated as an aspect of evolution (epigenetic inheritance of acquired traits) in about 150 years.
You asked for one I just gave you two. This not unique to climate science. It's how science works.