While it definitely will have bad consequenses, the melting of the arctic ice will not directly lead to rising sea levels (since it is floating).
[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007....
[2] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2007GL030784/full
Imagine filling half of a salad bowl with water, then resting a strainer full of ice on top of the bowl. As the ice melts, the water will drip into the bowl and raise the water level. That's basically what is happening with the arctic ice.
Here's a projection that claims it'll rise 2.5 meters by 2040.
http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2014/07/more-than-25m-sea-le...
When the landbased ice in the arctic region starts melting in earnest we will have a rather large problem..