A bit of math here:

The earth is coverered 3/4 by water.
The earths radius is about 6400 km (6.4 x 10^6 m)

The surface area of a sphere is 4*pi*r^2

The volume of water needed to raise the ocean 1" is


3/4*4*pi*(6.4 x 10^6 m)^2*1 in/39.39 in/m

= 9.7 Trillion cubic meters = 9.7 trillion tons of water


So even if the ice sheet is loosing 100 billion tons a year

it would take 97 years at this rate to raise the oceans a total of 1"

1 Inch in 97 years..............Oh the horror.


Remember when the "ozone hole" was going to kill all of us.......then someone pointed out that ozone holes form over the poles ever 6 months during the winter on that part of the earth........then it regenerates every summer.