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'''Edward Wegman''' is chair of the [[National Science Foundation]]'s Statistical Sciences Committee<ref> [http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/07/a_skeptics_prim.html A Skeptics Primer for &#8220;An Inconvenient Truth&#8221;]</ref> and former chairman of the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics of the [[National Academy of Sciences]].<ref> [http://www.amazon.com/Deniers-Renowned-Scientists-Political-Persecution/dp/0980076315/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1288282326&sr=1-1 The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud]</ref>. He challenges the statistical methods [[Michael Mann]] used to create the famous [[Hockey stick graph]] that the UN's [[IPCC|climate panel]] used to justify the [[Anthropogenic Global Warming Theory]].

'''Edward Wegman''', a prominent statistics professor at [[George Mason University]],<ref name=wegfact /> 

is chair of the [[National Science Foundation]]'s Statistical Sciences Committee<ref> [http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/07/a_skeptics_prim.html A Skeptics Primer for &#8220;An Inconvenient Truth&#8221;]</ref> and former chairman of the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics of the [[National Academy of Sciences]].<ref> [http://www.amazon.com/Deniers-Renowned-Scientists-Political-Persecution/dp/0980076315/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1288282326&sr=1-1 The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud]</ref>. He challenges the statistical methods [[Michael Mann]] used to create the famous [[Hockey stick graph]] that the UN's [[IPCC|climate panel]] used to justify the [[Anthropogenic Global Warming Theory]].

Dr. Wegman wrote:

Dr. Wegman wrote:

* It is important to note the isolation of the [[paleoclimate]] community; even though they rely heavily on statistical methods they do not seem to be interacting with the statistical community. Additionally, we judge that the sharing of research materials, data and results was haphazardly and grudgingly done. In this case we judge that there was too much reliance on [[peer review]], which was not necessarily independent. Moreover, the work has been sufficiently [[politicization of science|politicized]] that this community can hardly reassess their public positions without losing credibility. Overall, our committee believes that [[Michael Mann|Dr. Mann]]’s assessments that the decade of the 1990s was the hottest decade of the millennium and that 1998 was the hottest year of the millennium cannot be supported by his analysis.<ref> [http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/108/home/07142006_Wegman_fact_sheet.pdf Report Raises New Questions About Climate Change Assessments]</ref>

* It is important to note the isolation of the [[paleoclimate]] community; even though they rely heavily on statistical methods they do not seem to be interacting with the statistical community. Additionally, we judge that the sharing of research materials, data and results was haphazardly and grudgingly done. In this case we judge that there was too much reliance on [[peer review]], which was not necessarily independent. Moreover, the work has been sufficiently [[politicization of science|politicized]] that this community can hardly reassess their public positions without losing credibility. Overall, our committee believes that [[Michael Mann|Dr. Mann]]’s assessments that the decade of the 1990s was the hottest decade of the millennium and that 1998 was the hottest year of the millennium cannot be supported by his analysis.<ref name=wegfact> [http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/108/home/07142006_Wegman_fact_sheet.pdf Report Raises New Questions About Climate Change Assessments]</ref>

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