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Okay: So lets just think here for a moment. We have one ice cube. This ice cube is left out in the sun. Of course the sun being warmer than the ice cube, the ice cube starts to melt. Slowly at fist because of the shear mass. Are we cool so far (no pun intended)? So a little later the ice cube is still melting, but now it is a little sliver. This sliver will probably melt faster than the large ice cube right? Cuz its mass is smaller. So: why is this not true for the ice caps? I mean they were once HUGE covering north america and Asia. So they obvioulsy melted, and if we have an "alarming" amount melting now, could this just be because the ice caps are less in mass than they were before????????

That's true. Though, even if it's alarming because it's smaller, that still means it's melting faster, and we have less time to stop it.