An enormous snow cover is back on Mount Kilimanjaro; the loss of snow on it in recent years had become another portent of doom. Not anymore...but notice the author's sentence highlighted in bold. Of course...once again, so much has been said in the media that it will now be impossible to unravel without ending a few careers in humiliation, so the best course of action is to continue the myth for as long as possible...idiots. Kudos to Anthony Watts and Noel Sheppard.
Mount Kilimanjaro: On Africa's roof, still crowned with snow - International Herald Tribune:
I had wanted to climb to the roof of Africa before climate change erased its ice fields and the romance of its iconic "Snows of Kilimanjaro" image. But as we trudged across the 12,000-foot Shira plateau on Day 2 of our weeklong climb and gazed at the whiteness of the vast, humpbacked summit, I thought maybe I needn't have worried.An up-and-down-and-up traverse of the south face of Kibo, the tallest of the mountain's three volcanic peaks, showed us a panorama of the summit ice cap and fractured tentacles of glacial ice that dangled down gullies dividing the vertical rock faces. And four days later, when we reached 19,340-foot Uhuru, the highest point on Kibo, we beheld snow and ice fields so enormous as to resemble the Arctic.
It looked nothing like the photographs of Kibo nearly denuded of ice and snow in the Al Gore documentary "An Inconvenient Truth." Nor did it seem to jibe with the film's narrative: "Within the decade, there will be no more snows of Kilimanjaro."
As it turned out, we had simply been lucky.
