EnviroUSA/Global: Climate Change: Temperature records with 2% sample say Yes -- iffy or spiffy?

Volokh Conspiracy law-prof blog (Apr4,2k11)

refWrite comment:  The esteemed law scholar, Jonathan Adler, makes a neutral blog-entry on findings by scientists funded by a both/and set that includes both Koch Foundation and a Bill Gates Fund, with many others from both r+t and left, and inbetween (I presume, but I'd like to see the actual list at some point in time).  Purpose of the study is to determine the reliability of previous analyses of earth-surface temperatures as reported in 1.6 billion diverse measurements.  I consider this a most important endeavour, altho at present the sample studied is only 2% of the total known measurements.

Let's face it, science is an ideologically and pisteutically "contaminated" endeavour as there are no facts except what human beings make (the word "fact" itself derives etymologically from verbs in other languages for "to make" ("to manufacture" so to speak).  The term "data," the plural for the Latin "datum" only seems to be different.  They both derive their latterday day meanings from word-origins and concepts dependent on the Greek word "poiesis," from which our word "poem" is rather directly born.  All of this wordplay only goes to underscore the fact (gotcha) that the laity of our scientistic culture simply have to choose which source on many issues -- in this case scientific issues relating to the environment (in Portugese the word very ruffly seems equivalent to our "ambience" which in English steers the intended meaning a little to the r+t or left, Koch or Gates for instance)...each of us laity simply has to choose who of the authoritative voices on this subject we trust).  The idea that science has one voice, has in each discipline an immutable one true voice, and is not subject to paradigm shifts over time -- this has itself been overthrown philosophically by Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and the debate of the books's successors.  Postmodernism has picked up on this pisteutic anomaly. But Kuhn, Jerome Ravetz, Paul Feyerabend, Imre Lakatos, Peter L Berger, Michael Polanyi and all-importantly for refWrite, Herman Dooyeweerd, the Christian philosopher who anticipated all these developments in his New Critique of Theoretical Thought (English expanded version 1953-57).

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