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Iceland may lose some surface area due to rising seas, but warmer climates will probably create more farmland on the rich volcanic soil. They can probably maintain a modest quality of life for a very long time cut off from the rest of the world like Cuba, but without the increasing number and severity of tropical storms every year
Frozen snow and ice melting has actually caused Iceland to rise a bit as an island as the weight on it decreases
So it's actually gaining land