Where would you be safest, if global freeze happens?

Question

I've been hearing a lot of alarming (and very convincing) scenarios about how global warming will cause the polar ice to freshen the sea, causing the "conveyor belt" of oceans currents to stop. This would result in a new ice age and places like the Northern US and Europe/Russia, would be uninhabitable, whereas southern climates would experience severe drought. Anyone have thoughts on WHO would survive? Some scientists think it will happen in a couple generations, or less!

Many interesting perspectives! CherylYoung's post was impressive, with many options based on factors such as topography and radiation. It LOOKS like the highlands of Colombia, Brazil and surrounding S.American Countries would be the best, to survive rising oceans & drought, but not floods due to incr. rain. There would be the huge issue of competition for resources w/the people already living there! IMO, the person who answered "HELL"! Is probably the closest to a realistic scenario. Let's face it...we're probably all doomed!

Answer 1

Nuclear winter from Iran's nuclear weapons could come sooner than environmental global freeze. Then the safest place to be would be on another planet.

However, during a global freese it would be warmest on earth near the equator. That is what happened to the animals who did not die during the Ice Age. They just moved closer to the equator. Anywhere between the Tropic of Cancer (parallel of latitude that lies currently 23° 26′ 22″ north) and the Tropic of Capricorn (parallel of latitude at 23° 26′ 22″ south) should be OK.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropic_of_Cancer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropic_of_Capricorn

However, if due to global warming the polar ice caps melt then the level of the oceans would rise like in "Waterworld" the 1995 movie which suggests Mt. Everest is the best place.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114898/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterworld

So initially it would be best to seek high ground. (viz. New Orleans would not be a good place, Denver would be much better.) Then when it freezes move closer to the equator. Brazil (as one person suggested) looks OK.
http://www.graphicmaps.com/webimage/countrys/samerica/br.htm
http://www.brazadv.com/brazil_map/physical_map_brazil.asp
So would a lot of other places in Central America, Peru, Venezuela, Africa...

I really would have to look at a topographic globe like the one in the Detroit main library (across from Wayne State University) to give the best answer to this question. I do not know where I could find global topographic maps online.

Some plants and animals are adapted to a cold climate, so it might not be unreasonable to continue living in the cold climate. We have technology to combat freezing. Global warming is a worse problem because our ecosystem depends on oxygen from oceans and ocean animals and plants in the food chain. Again, technology could grow plantlife indoors hydroponically and animal husbandry could also go indoors. We have technology to live underground.

Human beings have evolved because they are able to adapt. However, it is difficult to adapt to nuclear radiation. It is interesting that people from Ramsar, Iran where there is a high natural background radiation, have evolved to survive in it, but the people who survived the Chernoble disaster have problems. Maybe that is why Iranians are not so worried about unleashing an atomic bomb and the subsequent nuclear winter.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Brazil would probably be okay. They are close to the equator and would stay pretty warm.....at least warmer than the northern areas of North America.

Brazil also has a very advance economy and plenty of farming that they could probably survive any fall out from the collapse of the economies of the world.

No matter where you are....I think it's going to be a mess.

Answer 4

My suggestion is to go underground with a large stock of provisions. The temperature of the earth underground remains relatively constant whether it is 150 degrees or -100 degrees. That is why flower bulbs can come back year after year without freezing.

Answer 5

Equator`s line located countries... f.example Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil... etc etc...

Answer 6

Close to the Equator

Answer 7

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