I agree with you that correlation does not always imply causation.The problem is, news stories or articles on facepage and Google are NOT peer reviewed scholarly journal articles.
However, even scholarly work can be suspect because they are very narrowly focused, I've encountered the problem with many in various scientific fields. If C can be made of A + B they decide a+b is true, so, it drives or creates C. Many studies out there have thay fallacy.
It's like saying really fast cars have big motors. So, if we can find a car, and it has a big motor, its really fast.
But what if there's no transmission? Or no rear end? Or there's something wrong with the engine itself.??
So many of the "studies" don't look further at the big picture of the transmissions, rear ends, or engine health. They prove their small piece of a hypothesis and fail to look at bigger pictures.
And that's the biggest problem with all that climate science.
However, some things are just obvious.
Yes, a car with a big motor, adequate drivetrain, sticky tires, and steering/suspension is fast.
Yes, dumping trash and chemicals in the ocean, burning tires, cutting down trees, and rolling coal is bad for the Earth.
It's an undeniable fact that average temperature of the Earth has increased in recent human history, and that it is collectively because of us.