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This article discusses the impact that climate change will likely have on gorillas living in Africa. It is not good. As global warming forces farmers in northwestern Rwanda to move to higher elevations, the fragile gorilla population will be put more at risk.
The mountain gorilla is one of humanity’s closest relatives, and the largest primate to roam the rainy, high volcanic habitat of Rwanda. Recent conservation efforts have brought this critically endangered, charismatic species back from the brink of extinction. But now these great apes, and the people who live near them, face a slower moving, but more insidiously invasive threat—a changing climate.
“When we talk about climate change, we need to understand that what happens to us is what happens to the gorillas,” explained Dr. Jean-Bosco Noheri, a veterinarian at Gorilla Doctors, a team that provides direct, hands-on care to gorillas in the African wild.
Volcanoes National Park, home to the mountain gorillas, is located in a very densely populated rural region of northwestern Rwanda. Known for its successful ecotourism program, the park is partially encircled by croplands whose subsistence and commercial farmers till the highly fertile volcanic soils. Entry to the park and to see the mountain gorillas is heavily restricted, with fees to tourists as high as $1,500 for just an hour with the great apes.
This opinion piece is by Will Cleveland, of SELC, examines the findings of a NERC report which show that the reliability factor known as frequency response—once seen as potentially challenged by added solar and wind power—is improving.
The North American electric grid’s annual checkup shows that it is becoming increasingly reliable, as solar and wind gain share, according to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC).
For solar, one grid reliability factor—frequency response—is of great interest because of concern, as stated in the report, that “a changing resource mix and increase in renewable resources” may have a “potential impact on frequency response performance.”
Frequency response has steadily improved since 2013, as shown in the last two columns of this table (i.e., one or both measures are improving in each interconnection):
This story is about politics – the 2018 election, and how Democratic nominee Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has one of the most ambitious climate plans.
An impressive list of anti-fossil fuel and pro-climate action candidates won party primaries on Tuesday night, indicating that environmental issues could receive greater attention in this fall’s general elections, especially as lawmakers devise plans to counteract the Trump administration’s anti-environment policies.
At least nine federal and statewide candidates who pledged to reject oil, gas, and coal contributions won their primaries. Among the strongest environmental voices who won Tuesday was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old community organizer who campaigned for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in his 2016 presidential bid and identifies as a democratic socialist.
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