Sudden impact – the need and importance of biofuels with global warming and climate change

Tomas Ekbom, Conference Director Swedish Bioenergy Association

www.svebio.se 17 June 2017, the fishing village Nuugaatsiaq on an island 100 km north of Uummannaq, Greenlandwest coast was hit. A mountain wall plunged 1000 meters into the Karrat fjord causing a 90 meter high mega-tsunami

A mega-tsunami is many times larger than a regular tsunami. It can travel 100 meter per second and may occur from vulcano eruptions and is estimated to happen once every 100 000 years. Another possible cause is a large meteorite hitting the ocean.

Some one hundred chained Greenland sled dogs were silenced by the ice-cold dark wave. None had time to rescue them. People on the island Innaarsuit were evacuated when huge ice blocks fell from >100 meter high ice berg, causing giant waves. Massive heat wave creates a new alpine lake at 3400 meters altitude in Mont Blanc region

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The base of the Dent du Géant and the Aiguilles Marbrées Climate change is visible and unpredictable, forests are on fire

Extreme heat waves 2018 Super-large forest wildfires Extensive drought Thomas fire, burned 280 000 acre in canyons and ridges above Bella Vista Drive near Romero Canyon in Dec 2017. Santa Barbara County Fire Department. California, USA 600 000 hectares burnt, 2018 Largest state-fire ever recorded

Even celebrities were hit and million dollar homes, some of the nation’s most expensive, burnt down

Some lost their homes, others had to be evacuated…

Neil Young & Daryl Hannah, Lionel Richie, Paris Hilton, Kloe Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Chris Hemsworth, Jessica Simpson, Miley Cyrus, Orlando Bloom, Alyssa Milano, Cher, Guillermo del Toro, Kendall Jenner, Martin Sheen, Kylie Jenner, Caitlyn Jenner, Lady Gaga, Gerard Butler…

In total 23 million people in the state of California lives with red flag warning and at least 1.1 million buildings lies in a ”severe hazard zone”. How do we act when there is a crisis?  Some plays on  Some looks on  Some take action!  Stop using oil, fossil gas and coal  Stop burning fossil fuels = priority No. 1  Replace them with renewable energy

Jänschwalde: 3000 MWe plant in Germany. Emissions: 24 million tonnes CO2 per year.  Sustainable biofuels – the best and fastest way to reduce vehicle emissions  There are 1.3 billion cars today, all of which can run on biofuels. A fact!  Clean biofuels = lower emissions.

Oil-field fires, Kuwait 1991 Photo: Steve McCurry

The blue planet is getting greener

We choose to believe there is a future for Mankind. Protect our nature, preserve our Earth.

Forest cover map https://imgur.com/gallery/RWVfU

30 % of the global emissions are absorbed in new biomass. The world is actually getting more green. Three times more new forest every ye a r, than what is lost.