Just the latest global warming claim proven laughably wrong.

The United Nations’ global warming panel had claimed that 40% of the Amazon rainforest would be wiped out by your driving an SUV and having a job. Turns out it was based on no real scientific evidence, just other claims made by global warming activists with little scientific background.

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.

Translation: The WWF was caught making crap up so it’ll now launch an “inquiry” that will find little wrong and sanction no one. The group was just hoping no one would catch on to its bullcrap.

This is the third time in as many weeks that serious doubts have been raised over the IPCC’s conclusions on climate change. Two weeks ago, after reports in The Sunday Times, it was forced to retract a warning that climate change was likely to melt the Himalayan glaciers by 2035. That warning was also based on claims in a WWF report.

The IPCC has been put on the defensive as well over its claims that climate change may be increasing the severity and frequency of natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods.

And yet the IPCC continues to insist that its conclusion not be doubted. Yes, it’s been shown that the organization is talking out of its ass and relying on studies authored by non-scientists. But don’t dare doubt its other claims! That would make you a flat-Earth denier.

Until, of course, another one of its claims is disproven. Then the IPCC will insist that it’s an isolated error and its ultimate conclusion still shouldn’t be questioned. No matter how many of its lies are exposed, don’t dare question the IPCC.

Read the whole report from Times Online to grasp the full stupidity of this situation.