The unavoidable conclusion is that the electrical grid disturbance incident hockey stick is not a climate WMD and should never have appeared in the CCSP report. Warren neatly picked this spitball off the wall, but it raises another interesting question. How did this false claim of climate WMD get into the CCSP report in the first place? And as an answer to this question, I’m interested in something more technical than calling the lead authors of the CCSP report a bunch of names, however richly deserved those names may be. I’m interested in procedures. These assessment reports typically make quite a fuss about relying on the “peer reviewed literature”. This raises the question: in what “peer reviewed” literature did the electrical hockey stick previously appear? Both the chase and the answer proved interesting.