While there are excellent scientific articles about ongoing research on the rapidly shrinking glaciers, online search engines kick up a deluge of misinformation when one enters “Kilimanjaro Climate Change.” I’ve read through many of these articles written by Climate Change deniers. I notice they pick and choose data in order to discredit the idea that Climate Change as a key driver in accelerating the disappearance of Kilimanjaro’s glaciers. I believe there is a political agenda at work here that is neither driven nor informed by science. Indeed, a lot more research needs to be done on Kilimanjaro. As this book labors to make clear, the way of science is to doubt and question. And there is such a large body of factual evidence and research that supports human-caused global warming that over a hundred national and international scientific bodies have written declarations, signed by their members, asserting this reality. So, while we continue to gather this information to better understand what is happening to our home, I believe we owe it to our children and all other living creatures, to stop emitting greenhouse gases that we do know cause planetary warming. For your reference:

Here’s the 2009 article I quoted from Nature Magazine: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7270/full/462140d.html

Here is the article of the original findings the Kilimanjaro research team published in the Proceedings of the national Academy of Sciences, November 2009:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2771743/

Here’s a CNN report on the same research:
http://articles.cnn.com/2009-11-02/tech/kilimanjaro.glaciers_1_glaciers-mount-kilimanjaro-lonnie-thompson?_s=PM:TECH

Here’s a list of all the scientific bodies who have signed declarations attesting to the reality of human-caused Climate Change:

Here’s the website of the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change:
http://www.ipcc.ch/

Here’s WWF’s Climate Change page. It’s a great place to get informed and get involved:
http://www.worldwildlife.org/climate