Sydney Morning Herald: Anecdotal evidence … the report considered ice melting in the Andes. THE Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has come under further criticism for the sources it has used in its Fourth Assessment Report. The Sunday Telegraph in Britain has reported that the panel used information from a magazine article and a student’s masters thesis as the basis of its assessment that global warming was the cause of mountain ice melting in the Andes, the European Alps and …