Why Are Kilimanjaro's Glaciers Fading?

One of the criticisms most frequently lobbed at Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth is that he has his facts wrong about the snows of Kilimanjaro. Yes, those immortal snows are vanishing (actually, they're glaciers, but we can blame Ernest Hemingway for that bit of poetic license), as Gore's global warming documentary contends, but they've been receding since the early 1900s at least — long before the planet began to warm.

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