I'm not taking sides, but I see lots of "alternative facts" from all sides (and there are more than two sides).
There's evidence that the earth is warming, but only if you squint a certain way. If you include the entire temperature record, and remove data from stations that didn't actually report data, and remove adjustments to the reported data (or alternatively remove the stations with "questionable" data recording methods), then all evidence of warming is gone.
The tidal data is also conflicted. There's no dispute that ocean levels are rising (as they have for tens of thousands of years), but the rate of the rise has not changed since pre-industrial times.
There's zero doubt that human activity is increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations, but there should be a debate (and there hasn't been one) over the point at which this becomes a problem. There are benefits to increased atmospheric CO2 such as lower diurnal temperature range (less extreme environment), increased food production, etc.
There's also the problem of getting the major contributors of the CO2 production to stop. China is at the top and has "committed" to leveling emissions at 2030 levels. Even if that happens, the whole of the remaining world could cut their emissions to zero and it would have no effect. India is number two and the same problem applies. Today now the US is committing economic suicide by eliminating energy sources and raising energy prices while the rest of the world laughs.
If you look carefully at the media reporting, you'll see that all of the climate alarm-ism comes from just a handful of extremest reporters.
If you look at the academic papers, you see a bias created by the funding sources and a reluctance of the peer-review publications to accept any skeptical works.
https://nypost.com/2023/08/09/climate-scientist-admits-the-o...