As Sandmonkey would say the Moneyshot:
" ‘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 politicized that this community can hardly reassess their public positions without losing credibility.

Overall, our committee believes that 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.’
– Excerpt from Wegman report "
http://energycommerce.house.gov/108/home/07142006_Wegman_fact_sheet.pdf
[The short verison, linked from http://www.climateaudit.org/ ]

Also:
"The public policy implications of this debate are financially
staggering and yet apparently no independent statistical expertise was sought or used.” "

Pretty damning stuff, but why would the soft science guys [polite term for psendo science crackpots] need geeky statisticians?