My point was the idea of that ice melting rapidly; if it has taken 30 years to have melted one meter of polar ice, then how many lifetimes will we have to endure to see them gone?
That’s a good point. 30 years = 1 meter. This is in a liquid environment that has more convection than ice packed in a glacier on land. The water in the Arctic Ocean is warmer than the ice layer, and therefore capable of transferring heat to the ice, and of carrying heat from the oceans in lower lattitudes. The glacial ice under Greenland and Antarctica can’t do that. It’s actually colder than the surface ice due to the lack of solar heating.
I have no idea how to formulate the equations, but it’s worth considering.