SNIP

Are increasing ocean temps responsible for melting at the Antarctic
fringes? ocean An Australian study in 2008 came to the conclusion that
sea level rises around Antarctica were due to warming oceans, not ice
melting (both could be due to GW, of course):

My understanding is that to date virtually all GW induced sea level
rise is due to expansion, not ice melting. Largely because the bulk of
the 'lost' ice was floating in any case, and therefore had already
displaced it's own water equivalent.

Graham
Penzance