David, <I'm 2000ft above sea level and 100 miles inland:)> Well done!
Bangalore is another good place. 1km high and inland, plus not subject to ice-age from sun blackout, not to mention nice wet monsoons to clean things up a bit and warm climate to avoid hypothermia.
With some fallout shelters, places like that and Switzerland should fare well, though Switzerland could rapidly reglaciate.
While it's statistical guesswork, the actual risk to the population is high compared with CO2 risks. Some things are of small consequence, but quite likely, whereas other things [such as your house burning down] are unlikely but very bad if they do happen. Because of humans' very limited perspective, we tend to under-rate the importance [albeit statistically] of very infrequent but very huge events [though 'infrequent' to people is of the order of only 1000 years - which, to nature, is as frequent as a tide].
I've only got 70 metres of vertical elevation between me and sea level. I don't yet have a bomb shelter [which would help to handle blast and fallout though not too many metres of hydrostatic pressure].
Imagine if we get a world wide recession or depression, then just as WWIII is really underway, we get an inbound 5 km comet. Now that would be serious excitement. In New Zealand we would throw in a Taupo caldera eruption just for added kicks. That's a biggie in case anyone doesn't understand - you will feel the effects too if only due to a darkening of the sky [which would be insignificant compared with the comet's atmospheric debris but would be a good curtain-raiser].
NewGlobalstar and QUALCOMM would be the best investment - after an underground bunker 500 metres above sea level and some weapons.
See, I can worry with the best of them.
Anyone for plague?
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