[We're doomed!]: Iceland ice lagoon filling up [with ice, in June!]: [thus we're all going to get kidney stones, therefore we need to wear shirts made out of chicken feathers, and we need to give $45 trillion to fraudsters, etc!]

Jokulsarlon, Iceland’s famous ice lagoon is nearly full. The lagoon is fed by ice breaking off the Vatnajokull Glacier, which is the biggest in Europe.

One of Vatnajokull’s glacial tongues, which directly feeds the lagoon, Breidamerkurjokull, has been in fast retreat recently, and Jokulsarlon is now very nearly full up as a result of ice falling off, RUV.is reports.

Iceland: Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon

At the time when the first settlers arrived in Iceland around 900 AD, the edge of the glacier tongue of Breidamerkurjokull, is thought to have been about 20 km further north than it is now. The climate began to cool around the year 1200, reaching a peak in the period 1600-1900, which is sometimes reffered as the "Little Ice Age". As a result of this colder climate, the glacier advanced until about 1890, reaching a point only about 1 km from the coast at Jokulsa river. The following warm period from 1920 to 1965 caused great changes in Breidamerkurjokull glacier tongue where it retreated rapidly, leaving a lagoon up to 200 m deep where the glacier snout had been, and several kilometres of glacial moraines were exposed on both sides of the lagoon. The lagoon started to form around 1934-’35 and has been getting bigger every year. The lagoon grew from 8 square km in 1975 to nearly 15 square km in 1998 and now the edge of the glacier tongue floats on the water. It calves into the lagoon and icebergs of different sizes can be seen aground and melting rather quickly. The lagoon is quite deep, around 200 m etres .