>>16589003
>Is it possible to get a surface level understanding of this stuff in a year in self-study it,
the wikipedia article on climate change is a good start and condenses enough information to make you more well-informed than most laymen who would like to talk about climate change
it's one of the most well-edited articles on the entire site.

from then on out, you can expand your knowledge through this site that compiles real-world examples and gives extensive yet digestible explanations by way of comparing contemporary claims relating to climate change with the current understanding of climate science
https://science.feedback.org/reviews/?_topic=climate

if you're still interested in the topic and want something heavier, read andrew dessler's "introduction to modern climate change", it strikes a great middle ground for laymen and generalists in terms of complexity and detail

>What are the common go-to papers people refer to when they state "experts say this about climate change/the environment"?
wikipedia's article on the hockey stick condenses a various studies into very digestible sections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_stick_graph_(global_temperature)
wikipedia generally provides great resources on all topics climate related, so you can keep consulting it for explanations and available studies
scroll to the bottom and expand the purple "climate change" panel

>It's probably to a large part just liars referring to something nobody will check anyway
nonsense, climate change has been independently corroborated by climate scientists globally and has a very strong consensus
climate change detractors don't usually do their own research, they pick and choose articles (that disagree with them) and nitpick details that are easy to misinterpret by laymen to fuel an anti-academia narrative

>>16589882
>but what do you recommend then?
pic-related

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