Your "Ice Age" Survival Strategy?

I cant see any problems tbh, might be a bit of chaos for a week until the roads are gritted. After that life would continue as normal, except colder and with bigger heating bills.

As for that "what would you use for fuel?" question - erm how about gas, oil, electricity from power stations that would still work?

I've been to Finland and they seem to get on just fine in minus 30 - after we got used to it, there'd be no bother.
 
sammo62 said:
I cant see any problems tbh, might be a bit of chaos for a week until the roads are gritted. After that life would continue as normal, except colder and with bigger heating bills.

As for that "what would you use for fuel?" question - erm how about gas, oil, electricity from power stations that would still work?

I've been to Finland and they seem to get on just fine in minus 30 - after we got used to it, there'd be no bother.
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Be a little difficult when most of Europe is under several hundred metres of Glacial Ice however, this what happens in an ice age, it's a little more than a harsh winter.
 
if everywhere is covered in ice, I'd work my ass off getting a car to start, and do some crazy ****, probably die in the process and die having a laugh. Seems a good enough plan as any!
 
Castiel said:
Be a little difficult when most of Europe is under several hundred metres of Glacial Ice however, this what happens in an ice age, it's a little more than a harsh winter.
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Meh, it would take tens of years to get to that stage. Worst case scenario it would take months, and everyone would just evacuate to Southern Europe.

Plus, it isn't really more than a harsh winter - they had a "little Ice Age" back in the middle ages, and that just caused a few rivers to freeze over - that's the sort of thing we would see, given the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, it seems very unlikely hundreds of metres of glaciers could form on the sly.
 
Castiel said:
Be a little difficult when most of Europe is under several hundred metres of Glacial Ice however, this what happens in an ice age, it's a little more than a harsh winter.
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Actually we lived though a European ice age not that long ago.



Hard yes, "few hundred meters of glacial ice" forming over night? No.
 
Tefal said:
Actually we lived though a European ice age not that long ago.



Hard yes, "few hundred meters of glacial ice" forming over night? No.
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It was called the Little Ice-Age and was just terminology, it was not a true Ice Age.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

So no we did not live through an European Ice Age, we lived through a period of global cooling.

A true Ice Age would put the majority of Europe under several hundred metres of glacial ice. Geological locations such as the buttermere valley in the lake district were created by glacial erosion during the last Ice Age.
 
Tefal said:
in what time scale?

And with how little intervention?
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Not really the point, the OP clearly states that the world is covered in year round snow and ice.

So accurate time scales are not necessary for the thread, otherwise we would not see any specific long term differences in our lifetimes as Ice Ages take thousands, if not millions of years to cycle. For example the Glaciers in England took about 40,000 years to recede.

If the OP were referring to a nuclear winter scenario for example then it would be different.



Megahurtz400 said:
What would you do if Europe/The World was plunged into a moderate ice age?

How long would it take for the world the adjust to year round snow and ice?

All theoretical of course, so no "It would never happen, pointless thread!"
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Radiation said:
How hard would it be to grow food for the population we have?
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