I don't think I'm misinterpreting those statistics at all.
> Most Americans can agree climate scientists think the climate change is man made
The statistic I cited (verbatim) shows that Americans grossly underestimate the level of consensus.
Even though only 1 out of 100 climate scientists - or even one in 1000 - disagree that humans are causing global heating, 7 out of every 8 Americans falsely believe that there's >10-100x more dissent.
Only 1 in 8 Americans put the consensus at over 90%, when in fact it's more like 99.9%.
That's because our media and political (and banking, and military, and legal) institutions are selling out the entire planet. Have been for decades.
> while still thinking we don't have an effect on it.
Most Americans actally do know we're fucking up the planet. "Over half of Americans (58%) understand that global warming is mostly human caused" - from the same link as above. That 58% ought to be far higher, all the same.
We are not being represented in policy or media, and the scientific consensus is being systematically misrepresented (for cash) by the people we employ to make good decisions for the future.
Most Americans can agree climate scientists think the climate change is man made while still thinking we don't have an effect on it.