Personally I am more worried about Ebola than global warming.

The Ebola virus is marching steadily across western and central Africa, wiping out more than 90 percent of the gorillas in its path and threatening the species with extinction, a new study says. …

The virus is named after the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, near where the first known outbreak occurred in 1976.

Ebola is moving at a rate of around 31 miles (50 kilometers) per year in western and central Africa, experts say. Most of the area’s remaining gorillas live within about 124 miles (200 kilometers) of the current outbreak.

“[Ebola] has already swept through two of the largest gorilla reserves and three or four of the smaller ones,” said study team member Peter Walsh of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

“The outlook is pretty bleak.”

Ebola Killing Thousands of Gorillas, Study Says