In 2010, the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce published what became known as the Wegman Report — a critical review of the famous “hockey stick” temperature reconstruction first introduced by Michael Mann and colleagues in the late 1990s.
The report examined both the statistical methods used and the small, interconnected circle of researchers who dominated climate reconstruction studies. It concluded that the hockey stick’s sharp 20th-century warming trend was largely a product of flawed methodology, raising questions about how climate science was being conducted and reviewed.
At the heart of the controversy was the use of principal component analysis (PCA), a statistical technique meant to simplify complex datasets. Mann’s team centered their proxy data incorrectly, which the Wegman panel argued artificially produced the famous “hockey stick” shape showing an unprecedented modern warming spike. Independent statisticians who reviewed the data could not reproduce Mann’s results, while critics Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick successfully did so using corrected methods. The report found their critique “valid and compelling,” undermining the reliability of the hockey stick graph.
Beyond the statistics, the Wegman Report highlighted the insular nature of the climate reconstruction field. It found that a small group of around 40 researchers — with Mann at the center — coauthored most of the influential papers, often reviewing each other’s work. The committee warned that this close-knit network limited true independence in peer review and fostered an echo chamber effect, where dissenting views were sidelined. This lack of interaction with mainstream statisticians was flagged as a major weakness in the credibility of the field.
The report’s recommendations were blunt: policy-related scientific findings, such as those used in UN IPCC assessments, should not be written by the same researchers whose work is under review. It called for mandatory statistical oversight in federally funded climate studies, transparent data and code sharing, and stronger interdisciplinary collaboration. The panel drew parallels to clinical drug trials, where independent statisticians are always involved in regulatory approval, and suggested climate science needed a similar safeguard to protect public trust.
Ultimately, the Wegman Report concluded that Mann’s claims — that the 1990s were the hottest decade of the millennium and 1998 the hottest year — “cannot be supported” by his analysis. While the report did not deny that warming exists, it underscored how politicised and fragile the foundations of climate policy had become. By exposing the methodological flaws and the “cabal-like” structure of climate authorship, the report gave ammunition to critics who argued that climate science had been shaped as much by activism and groupthink as by rigorous, transparent research and scientific standards.
Climate 'science' was run by a small Cabal of 34 'scientist'/Activists in the 1980's and 90's.
As shown here in this K9 Social Millflower of the 43 climate authors. The leader of the group was Mann.
Their activities were investigated by the US Senate, and exposed in the 2010… pic.twitter.com/cUOJQMZEll— 1000FrollyPhD (@1000Frolly) August 24, 2025
I remember thinking at the time that the Wegman Report would deal a serious blow to the whole CAGW scam. But it turned out to be one example among many, of how the mainstream media is not interested in the truth, along with their ideological allies in bureaucracies and other institutions.
You will typically find the Wegman report referred to as “discredited” – which when you dig into the actual facts, relates to a single quote from which attribution was accidentally omitted. It made not a material jot of difference even to the page on which it was included, let alone the whole Report.
Our civilization’s survival really depends on truth being allowed to prevail somehow, whether through alternative sources of information (hence the Left’s constant attempts to appoint their own censors of everything) or even outright criminal penalties for deliberate distortions. The example of the Wegman Report alone, illustrates the scale of damage from allowing an edifice of falsehoods to be sustained and built up further.
Most of the world’s climate hysteria is being caused by HAARP along with chem trailing and cloud seeding. If you can’t see that then my advice would be to go back to sleep.
Bottom line is that we could do with at least twice the carbon in the air than we currently have. At around 400 parts per million carbon is dangerously low in our atmosphere. Carbon is vital plant food.
I can’t help but come to the conclusion that all these 3 letter world agencies are run by hybid nephilim whose goal is the genocide of mankind.