Record Breaking Weather

[chuck white]

10 years after Gore's movie, let's see how it holds up.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/05/03/an-inc...z47h2jBizY

When Kenyan mountaineer Nikunj Shah first climbed Mt Kenya as an 18-year-old, he and his friends strapped plastic bags to their boots to keep their feet dry as they crossed a glacier on the way to the 5199m peak.
Since then, in 1989, Shah has gone up Africa's second-highest mountain - after Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania - 52 more times, making him one of its most experienced climbers.
Shah - a trustee with the 65-year-old Mountain Club of Kenya - has better gear these days for his two annual climbs, but he no longer needs to worry about snow filling his boots.
The glaciers Kenyans have looked at in wonder for millennia are disappearing as a result of climate change.
"In the late 1980s and early 90s, 90 per cent of the walk [above the high camp] was in the snow," Shah says. "But you don't walk on snow any more. You use the [rock] ridge."

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/ar...d=11629002