Who will be the worst hit?

[Stylesjl]

When Global Warming starts to really pick up, which nations are going to get the worst of its effects? Which nations will benefit or get the least of the problems?

Its a good question to ask, because some nations might not care simply on the basis that their nation won't suffer so badly and hence they will gain a net advantage over other nations

 

[Godwynn]

Worst, Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Micronesia, Japan, any country with a lot of coastline.

Best.... um, Tibet? Turkmenistan?

 

[CCA]

Third World nations without the resources to deal with climate change.

 

[warpus]

Russia will benefit greatly

 

[Irish Caesar]

Chad will probably not be greatly affected.

 

[Ramius75]

Singapore, we will probably be underwater sleeping with the fishes.

 

[scipian]

None. That's my view.

If I assume that it really is happening, probably some place like Indonesia, the Low Countries (Belgium, Netherlands), and all the minute islands. Canada, Russia, and Iceland will do better.

 

[QuoVadisNation]

Potentionally, I say Asia. The whole 40% of India and China getting it water from mountains that are melting and will be gone soon thing will be bad.

 

[MjM]

I will be fine, I had 2 shields of mountains tween me and the ocean.

 

[useless]

america possibly and especially canada/greenland or any place that has snow

 

[BasketCase]

On the one hand, Third World nations will have fewer resources with which to deal with the problem. On the other hand, people in such nations have less to lose. An aboriginal tribesman living in the Amazon can pack up his stuff and be off to a new pad in a couple of minutes. Whereas one of you here in CFC would need a week or so to rent a U-Haul, pack up shop, and get trucked to your new dig.

But then, seeing as how any changes as a result of global warming will take decades or centuries to occur, they will go largely unnoticed, and humans will deal with future changes the same way they've been dealing with past changes. The same way people living on the California coast have been dealing with shore erosion that eats away at the ground under their beachfront houses.

 

[S.P.Q.R.]

As usually, the poorest of the poor.

 

[Tee Kay]

All nations will be badly hit but Third World Nations will be worst hit, especially Africa and Asia. Africa have no resources with which to combat the problems, and Asia have a lot of low lying lands supporting over 500,000,000 people. Plus they get most of their water from glacier meltwaters. If the glaciers are gone, so too are the 3 billion or so people living in India, China, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, etc who will either starve, condemned to poverty or shot trying to migrate en masse into more fortunate countries (which of course will not be able to handle such population movements).

 

[El_Machinae]

Many places which rely on snowmelt to supply freshwater are in for a surprise. Many places which are historical farmlands will be affected, merely because their farms will no longer be appropriate for where they are. Civilisation with coastal cultures might be affected, if the storm intensities increase