March 14, 2010
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UN climate change claims on rainforests were wrong, study suggests (Richard Gray, 3/13/10, Daily Telegraph)
A new study, funded by Nasa, has found that the most serious drought in the Amazon for more than a century had little impact on the rainforest's vegetation.Posted by Orrin Judd at March 14, 2010 7:17 AMThe findings appear to disprove claims by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that up to 40% of the Amazon rainforest could react drastically to even a small reduction in rainfall and could see the trees replaced by tropical grassland.