In April, 1888 a massive flood on Mars inundated an area the size of France, cut the polar ice cap in half, and joined the two Martian seas. Global warming was rapidly destroying the Martian ice caps. The consensus of leading astronomers around the world agreed.
It’s related to confirmation bias and definitely infects all areas of non-operational science (it almost has to by definition, otherwise you’d need a random “hypothesis generator” to keep from being biased). I work in an “operational” science, and the problem even infects this field…the nice thing is that it is (relatively) easy to prove people wrong in an operational science.
-Scott
If it does not work it is wrong! Simple enough. I spend a career finding wrong as a trouble shooter!
Do you ever shake your head when people ask you how do you know X is a problem? Heh.
About 8 or so years ago, it was reported that the ice on Mars was melting. If the Sun does go into a solar minimum, it’ll be interesting to see if the ice caps on Mars start to expand…