[oldandtired]

My comment about the 1 million bombs is related to just the amount of energy required to convert solid water to liquid water at 0 degrees Celsius.

The figures that I have seen from various studies indicate that only a very small amount of the energy stored in water ever gets to actually meting ice.

In regards to the ice flows, the flow is caused by evaporated water from the oceans being deposited on the land at the glacier. Without that depositing of water vapour, there is no flow. Hence, until a determined study is made on the full dynamics of this cycle, mayhaps one should not be using this as the driving example or even as an example.