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Slowly but surely developing countries are adapting to the climate change. They have no other choice. Environmental concerns are now worldwide. Glaciers have been gradually melting in Iceland in the last hundred years and a new lagoon has formed from the melting ice of the majestic Vatnajokull glacier. Although miniscule in comparison to other European ice caps, this 9.3 mile wide and 12.4 mile long chunk of ice is impressive, according to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle August 21, 2000. Icelandic environmentalists are worried.

Iceland, a tiny little arctic island country with only 310,000 people has only recently concerned itself with environmental issues. Previously they busied themselves with their fishing and sheep farming and coal imports and other survival necessities. Their most recent diversion has been dealing with Alcoa Aluminum and its enterprises it has carved out of the Iceland. A dam is being built and more enterprises are being planned.They like people everywhere now are looking backward and forward at the same time.They ask, should we or shouldn't we allow this?

One hundred years ago the jutting out snout' of the glacier was only 250 yards from the ocean; in the interim it has receded about two miles. In its wake, however, it has not given back the ancient farmlands it froze at its formation centuries ago, but has given birth to the above mentioned lagoon.

Overall, the picture is frightening enough to have all the world of accountability worried about the eventful outcome of our overuse of our natural resources: Arctic sea ice has shrunk 14,000 square miles in the past twenty years; oceans are not freezing over to the depth they once froze over; the North Pole even has an ocean path that is ice free. What so worries the environmentalist that convened at the Kyoto, Japan summit November 6, 2004, is the world is creating more carbon dioxide than the earth can absorb.

Iceland, according to a report March 26, 2006 by Thomas Wagner, has been in on projects to bury global warming' even thought this frigid little country is the last place on earth we would expect to be worried about overheating. Their country is unique in so many different ways: They have an ideal geothermal heating system brought about by their turf being on top of two glacier plates that spew out volcanic heat and mud. Nearly all their homes are heated by converting the hot water from their many hot water pools created by this interaction of hot and cold jostling going on underneath.

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