This is wonderful news! I realised that government ministers were powerful, but not this powerful! Thank goodness that now, due to a minister's decree, the snow won't melt!

Please could request that the minister for natural resources should decree that oil and food prices on world markets will fall. Thank you!

Jerry

PS - ok, to be frank, the Minister for Tourism is clearly a buffoon. I guess we get the politicians we deserve, but what on earth have we done to deserve this?!

The glaciers on Kilimanjaro have a natural cycle which will be affected by precipitation changes. The temperature above the snow line has been consistantly below zero since measurements began, and obviously before this as well. What has changed is the precipitation rate. Deforestation on the lower slopes will affect this due to the lowering of evapotranspiration which reduces the higher level snows. This has nothing to do with AGW.