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Originally posted by techweenie
Volume, yes, because snow is many times less dense than ice.

But overall, a dramatic loss of frozen water mass. I'll see if I can find the article I read. but you can also look up satellite photos of Greenland to see the loss of ice mass at the other pole...

Here's some info from JPL

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2006-028
IIRC it was mass equivalence not just volume, but as I can't quote the source....your results may vary...
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