Ann Curry takes fossil-fueled trip to Tanzania, but fails in her attempt to summit Kilimanjaro

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Curry and her climbing team were scheduled to reach the summit tomorrow in time to coincide with the "Today" morning broadcast, but she announced on this morning's show that the team made the decision to stop their climb at about 15,700 feet because everyone was suffering from acute altitude sickness.

She said in yesterday's broadcast report that, even if they didn't summit, they accomplished what they set out to do by showing the visual evidence of how far the glaciers and snow fields have retreated from the mountain because of climate change with 80 percent of the glaciers having disappeared in 20 years. The report made no claim as to whether the climate change is man-made or occurring naturally.

About 3/4 of the way through the video at the link above, Curry says "the cold is also so overwhelming".

If it's so cold up there, how could the glaciers and snow be melting?

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Gore says “global warming” has been melting the snows of Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa. It is not.

The melting of the Furtwangler Glacier at the summit of the mountain began 125 years ago. More of the glacier had melted before Hemingway wrote The Snows of Kilimanjaro in 1936 than afterward.

Temperature at the summit never rises above freezing and is at an average of –7 Celsius. The cause of the melting is long-term climate shifts exacerbated by imprudent regional deforestation, and has nothing to do with “global warming.”