It Was All a Lie

Another global warming claim is found to be fiction:

UN climate panel shamed by bogus rainforest claim
By Jonathan Leake, Times of London

A startling report by the United Nations climate watchdog that global warming might wipe out 40% of the Amazon rainforest was based on an unsubstantiated claim by green campaigners who had little scientific expertise.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in its 2007 benchmark report that even a slight change in rainfall could see swathes of the rainforest rapidly replaced by savanna grassland.

The source for its claim was a report from WWF, an environmental pressure group, which was authored by two green activists. They had based their “research” on a study published in Nature, the science journal, which did not assess rainfall but in fact looked at the impact on the forest of human activity such as logging and burning. This weekend WWF said it was launching an internal inquiry into the study. [link] 

As I suspected all along, these wild claims were all made up.  None of them were true.  The "science" was nothing more than propaganda.

Never forget: The world's environmentalists were prepared to alter your way of life based on these perversions.  Never forget them.  Never let down your guard.