Britain's leading newspaper The Sunday Times has apologised to IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri for an article it published in January asserting that the UN panel's Amazon statement was bogus. <br/><br/>The newspaper not only published a correction but also an apology, which is considered a giant climb down. The newspaper said the article 'UN climate panel shamed by bogus rainforest claim' stated that the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report had included an unsubstantiated claim that up to 40 per cent of the Amazon rainforest could be sensitive to future changes in rainfall.<br/><br/>The IPCC had referenced the claim to a report prepared for WWF by Andrew Rowell and Peter Moore, whom the article described as green campaigners with little scientific expertise."<br/> <br/>The paper said in the correction that in fact, the IPCC's Amazon statement is supported by peer-reviewed scientific evidence. In the case of the WWF report, the figure had, in error, not been references, but was based on research by the respected Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) which did relate to the impact of climate change.