Even depressions end. Climate chaos may not. - Greg Craven

My students have described this process of testing ideas in science as: “Hit it with a sledgehammer and see if it breaks. Whatever survives is the best we've got." Science is a very adversarial activity! Hence the old adage among physicists: Physics is a contact sport.

The clever part is that it changes the question from, Who should I believe? to, What should I do? After all, the physical world is unaffected by our beliefs. It reacts only to our actions.

Try to keep in mind one of the fundamental aspects of science: letting the evidence form belief rather than belief select evidence.