It's most interesting that the current sea level rise is mostly due to thermal expansion of the water, not the melting ice. When learning about sea level rise in school, the focus was definitely on the latter.
The proportion of sea level rise from melting ice is significantly increasing though.
> In the early 1990s, ice sheet melting accounted for only a small fraction (5.6 %) of sea-level rise. However, there has been a fivefold increase in melting since then, and they are now responsible for more than a quarter (25.6 %) of all sea-level rise.
It is a bit strange how much melting ice caps get attention more than the thermal expansion of water, but I expect that is because a melting ice cap is much more visceral and easily understood and explained than the thermal expansion of water.
