Al Gore

Mount Kilimanjaro's snow and ice will be gone by the end of 2016.

“Within the decade, there will be no more snows of Kilimanjaro.”

Said on

24 May 2006 · Narration in the film An Inconvenient Truth (2006); clip aired on CNN Larry King Live, June 13, 2006

Source

Larry King Live: Interview with Al Gore (transcript) · CNN

Should come true

2010s

How sure they sounded

there will be (no hedge)

Categories

Climate

Importance

2 of 5 · An iconic but local glacier; symbolic of climate impacts rather than consequential in itself.

Outcome

Inaccurate

The window closed at the end of 2016 and Kilimanjaro still had glacier ice and snow; a 2026 Yale Climate Connections retrospective notes some remnants remain. The ice has shrunk greatly, but it has not disappeared.

Evidence:

• https://skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=6525