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I don't doubt that Trump is a jerk. That's who we're blaming everything on, right?

But first, let's remember that the U.S. $ is what, about 30% stronger than it was just a couple of years ago? That's going to have an impact on tourism, for sure.

Then realise that the U.S. Is a huge country of generally wealthy people who rarely leave that country. That means foreign visitor tourism, while huge numbers, is still nearly meaningless in proportion to Americans traveling internally.

http://www.eturbonews.com/5332...

96.7% of US tourism is domestic.
Ergo, 3.3% is foreign

Foreign tourism could drop by 50% and most venues wouldn't even notice.

It is quite important since it is not going to happen: Mount Kilimanjaro glaciers nowhere near extinction

Alarmed by the Prof. Thompson study, way back in 2006, Tanzania President Jakaya Kikwete imposed a total ban on tree harvesting in Kilimanjaro region in a move aimed to halt catastrophic environmental degradation, including melting of ice on Mount Kilimanjaro. As a result of the measures, the forest cover on the mount Kilimanjaro is slowly, but surely becoming thick. Experts say the forests on Kilimanjaro's lower slopes absorb moisture from the cloud hovering near the peak, and in turn nourish flora and fauna below

Predictions of "if we don't do something, thing will happen" result in something being done and thing not happening - proving the prediction wasn't true. Logic failure detected.

Alarmed by the Prof. Thompson study, way back in 2006, Tanzania President Jakaya Kikwete imposed a total ban on tree harvesting in Kilimanjaro region in a move aimed to halt catastrophic environmental degradation, including melting of ice on Mount Kilimanjaro.

As a result of the measures, the forest cover on the mount Kilimanjaro is slowly, but surely becoming thick.

Experts say the forests on Kilimanjaro's lower slopes absorb moisture from the cloud hovering near the peak, and in turn nourish flora and fauna below

The snow on Kilimanjaro is apparently coming back. It seem very drought dependent.

http://www.eturbonews.com/21762/snow-slowly-building-mount-kilimanjaro

Not quite. The Spoof has an article with fake quotes talking about the crocodile attempting to pilot the plane. It was published on October 22nd, 2010.

Other sources include more details, and appear to be legitimate. Some predate the Spoof article.

It's not the incident that The Spoof fictionalized. It's just the details.

Yeah they're really friendly toward tourists in Rio.

There's a solution for that [yes, SFW], and an appropriate safety video has already been done for at least one airline [marginally SFW].