I mean, with climate change the thing to be afraid of is that the populace remains complacent and human beings fail to address and properly respond to an existential threat.
If not, and other researchers can back it up - then you don't have to be afraid of an existential threat! win-win
Being a scientist means you have to adopt a mentality of passive observation and openness to being wrong, otherwise you'll just fall into the trap of confirmation bias which necessarily results in bad science.
Additionally, click-bait is a thing, just pushing a headline with "based on a scientific paper" out there can be dangerous - there is the old adage that a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
If you want persuasive arguments, check out potholer54's channel on YouTube. He's demolished just about the entire corpus of anti-climate change propaganda.