Wegman report round-up - Science Fair: Science and Space News - USATODAY.com: "Essentially, the 2006 report contains a critique of statistical techniques used by climate scientists in 1998 and 1999 papers, and was requested by Rep. Joe Barton, R. - Texas, then head of the House energy committee, as part of an investigation of climate scientists.
The plagiarism charge against the Wegman report, dubbed"Skepticgate" by Pace University climate writer Andrew Revkin, were first made by the Deep Climate website last year, with further analysis by retired computer scientist John Mashey of Portola Valley, Calif. They have charged Wegman and his fellow report authors with plagiarism and other shortcomings that compromise the credibility of their findings, including hidden influence by Barton committee staffers during the composition of the report. A 2007 presentation at GMU by one of the report's authors, Yasmin Said, says that an energy committee staffer, Peter Spencer, sent the report authors, "daunting amount of material" over the nine months of its composition."
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