I want to see the poles melted. I’m curious to find out if there are signs of settlements under all that ice. Heck, they recently discovered vast bodies of water deep in the earth. The water is superheated, but the pressure keeps it from boiling. It’s a real pressure cooker down there. That wasn’t known last year.
The middle earth folks don’t want the ice melted as it would reveal the door to middle earth.
The North Pole is in the Arctic Ocean, so no settlement signs will be found there. And South Pole settlements are mostly documented scientific expeditions and old whaling stations.