The New York Times was forced on Wednesday to run an embarrassing correction to its front-page story on a US government report on global warming, which it initially claimed was an unpublished draft that had yet to be released.

Turns out, the draft report has been publicly available for seven months, meaning the Times “scoop” was no scoop at all.

The Times’ front-page story said scientists were worried that the Climate Science Special Report — a multi-agency report that lays the blame for climate change on human activity — “would be suppressed” by the Trump administration, as cabinet members have expressed skepticism that humans are causing global warming.

But, as with many reports from federal agencies, there is a period of public comment before a final report is issued. The third order draft, which the Times had falsely hyped as an exclusive of unpublished material, has been publicly available since January on the Internet Archive.

The Internet Archive — also known as The Internet Wayback Machine Archive — is a San Francisco-based nonprofit digital library.

In its correction, the red-faced Gray Lady wrote: “An article on Tuesday about a sweeping federal climate change report referred incorrectly to the availability of the report. While it was not widely publicized, the report was uploaded by the nonprofit Internet Archive in January; it was not first made public by The New York Times.”

The website Daily Caller also reported that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had posted the report on its own website in March.

The Times subsequently obtained an unpublished “fifth order draft” of the document — but it was only received after its page-one story had hit Tuesday.

The Times then switched the link in its story from the publicly available third order draft to the yet-to-be-published “fifth order draft,” according to the Daily Caller.

The changes from the third to the fifth draft were said to be not substantial, according to the Washington Post, citing people who had reviewed both versions.