When powerful storms combine with increased sea level rise and intense coastal development, they provide the ingredients for massive destruction, loss of life and major economic losses. (surfrider.org)
Due to the significant thickness of these ice sheets, global warming analysis typically focuses on the loss of ice mass from the ice sheets increasing sea level rise, and not on a reduction in the surface area of the ice sheets. (en.wikipedia.org)
The impacts it described, which included increasing sea level rise, were totally uncontroversial (even amongst skeptics). (treehugger.com)