The Sermilik fjord in Greenland: a chilling view of a warming world The Sermilik fjord in Greenland: a chilling view of a warming world. The wall of ice that rises behind Sermilik fjord stretches for 1,500 miles (2,400km) from north to south and smothers 80% of this country. It has been frozen for 3m years. Now it is melting, far faster than the climate models predicted and far more decisively than any political action to combat our changing climate. share tweet