Without a lot of background (some mix of grad school, regular interaction with experts at conferences, reading journal publications) you will be easily misled b

Without a lot of background (some mix of grad school, regular interaction with experts at conferences, reading journal publications) you will be easily misled by motivated reasoning, which is everywhere in this domain. People spend their careers on this stuff. Undergrad physics, chemistry, and earth science is not enough. Resources like the overview report I linked are critical.