Nothing else needs saying, except this is just one colossal iceberg off the coast of Ilulissat, Greenland, among hundreds of others breaking off or calving at alarming rates over the last 10-20 years. This particular iceberg moved into Disko Bay, Greenland, after fracturing, melting and then became small enough to literally flip, doing a somersault and creating massive waves as it broke apart due to Climate Change.
Greenland, the world’s largest island, is also covered in one of the earth’s two ice sheets. The other cloaks Antarctica. Greenland’s encompasses around 80 percent of the nation’s land mass, spanning more than 650,000 square miles. But it’s also melting at an accelerating rate due to climate change, losing an annual average of 261 gigatonnes—one gigatonne is equivalent to 2.2 trillion pounds—contributing to rising sea levels that impact the rest of the world. And Greenland’s massive icebergs are a reminder of this exceptional scale. Once the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland erode past a specific amount of square miles, a point the Earth is reaching rapidly—unless the remaining superpower nations like the United States do more, A LOT MORE—the planet can no longer be saved. Most life as we know it, such as humans and most animals on land and in the seas, will perish. Us, we, and they will indeed go extinct. Guaranteed.
When 195 countries signed the Paris Agreement in 2016, the Copernicus Climate Change Service estimated that Earth would reach the 1.5 degrees threshold by 2042. But now, the European organization’s global temperature trend monitor predicts that Earth will hit 1.5 degrees Celsius in warming by 2029—just three years from now. No one country is doing enough, period. But for 2026 what 10 nations are doing the most to slow Climate Change?
- Denmark — Overall score: 80.52
- United Kingdom — Overall score: 70.8
- Morocco — Overall score: 70.75
- Chile — Overall score: 70.63
- Luxembourg — Overall score: 70.45
- Lithuania — Overall score: 70.3
- Netherlands — Overall score: 67.27
- Norway — Overall score: 66.83
- Portugal — Overall score: 66.05
- Sweden — Overall score: 64.91
Want to know where the United States ranks? Are you sitting down? The USA is #65 and dropping as of August 5, 2026, at 12:07pm CST (-5 hrs UTC).
Civilization must, I repeat MUST get off and stop burning fossil fuels and other gases and minerals causing Global Warming. It is so much worse than first predicted 40-60 years ago! What are you doing about it at home? What are you doing about Climate Change in your neighborhood, community, town, city, or state? What are you making your elected government officials address, and take action, not just hear their repeated lip-service?
Here’s the outlook, it’s bleak, very bleak if we continue with business-as-usual:
Not only will you, your spouse or partner suffer greatly from every imaginable disaster possible, severe food shortages, empty grocery stores, increased extreme temperatures, increased draughts more prolonged, increased flooding, more 1,000-year and 100-year Category 4 and 5 (and 6?) storms, hurricanes, typhoons, and tornadoes… but your own children, nieces, nephews, cousins, siblings, parents(?), and best friends, followed by your grandchildren and all of their relatives, will begin to die off from a wide variety of health issues, disease, malnutrition, and other problems yet unknown!
Doing nothing or very, very little, and too slowly has just ONE outcome for us all. It isn’t rocket science.
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The Professor's Convatorium 
So long as the current administration remains in control, any efforts towards this issue on the part of individual citizens is going to have minimal effect. It HAS to start with the powers-that-be putting some sort of control on the guilty industries. And regrettably, I don’t see that happening anytime soon.
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Well my goodness Nan. You are beginning to sound like me, the eternal, realistic pessimist with a smidgin of hope! 😉
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Pfffttt… Fake news.
Jesus will come again just in time to save the Polar Bears… and Colorstorm.
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The current estimate of global sea level rise by 2100 is a very conservative 1-6.25 feet. Although that would be bad enough, my research indicates that the actual figure will be much higher. Climate change has already been measured as accelerating much faster than the scientific community had forecast.
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Yes, sadly Robert… very true. 😒
The one thing that bothers me deeply and incessantly is what sort of Earth my grandchildren then great-grandchildren will inherit—and just how much torture, pain, struggle, starvation, etc., etc., we have inflicted on them. 😢
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I hazard to guess.
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Professor, it looks like most of our ecosystems and their genetic and behavioral diversity will be lost (along with human civilization). There appears to be no stopping this. Not totally bleak however: Enclaves will persist and leave us with hope for a future biosphere of recovered diversity composed of new species and niches. A forthcoming volume in my series exploring the issues provides a more detailed discussion of the future we can expect. The first draft is entering the editing process today.
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Ah Garry, you always have fantastic, scholarly blogs on this subject—I often reference your posts for the hard data.
Thanks for coming over and commenting. It is always appreciated. 🙂
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I’m a bit surprised that Morocco features so high up on the list considering their political ties with the U.S. and Israel. Maybe the negative influence from both doesn’t reach as far as the environmental space.
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Lenny, I too was a bit surprised by Morocco. But what I didn’t know was just how bottomed out the USA is on this inevitable Horizon Event, so to speak, and that we are dropping. 😠😔
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Human understanding is often thought to better be late than never, but this one cannot be more critical that we are on time to prevent “never” because that is our own demise.
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Yes sklyjd. Poignantly and painfully right.
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Too many people are too used to using machines, especially carbon-emitting machines like planes and gas-powered automobiles. Every time the Space-X rocket gets launched the carbon production gets a huge hit. Most people do not get that they are contributing to Climate Change, it’s always someone else’s fault, not theirs.
We put solar panels on our house a while back, but our Conservative provincial government wants to bury us in coal dust, not to mention they have upped the production caps on oil-mining companies. It was when we got the solar panels we found out that there are laws affecting how much solar energy can be produced in one day, and preventing citizens from storing energy in batteries. All the energy we are producing is being put into the power grid which is key to producing oil and coal. We cannot win for losing. Government officials just want the money tied to carbon-producing projects, not caring one whit about what they are doing to the people and the land.
According to them, climate change is a hoax. It will be too late when they wake up to the reality of what they are doing today.
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Yes rawgod, as long as wealth, profits, gold, money is the Almighty God of most everyone on the planet, especially in the developed 1st-world countries and some of the 2nd-world economies… it is unlikely significant change and deterrents will happen. As I remember Matt Damon saying in the exceptional 2014 film Interstellar… Dr. Mann said something to the effect that ‘out of all the expeditionary spaceships Earth sent out, surely someone somewhere survived?‘
And then the very, very HARSH reality about human nature and its drive to survive, The Monstrous Lie:
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