The ice packs in the arctic haven’t increased they’ve shrunk, but the over all snow fall has increased. Both of these facts have predicted by global warming models for over thirty years.

Despite being full of ice and snow, the arctic is essentially a desert. As normally there is little moisture in the air, the average yearly snow fall is only 2 inches per year, but as the snow packs have melted, the humidity has risen and along with it increased overall snow fall across the region. Unfortunately not remotely enough to replace the ice and snow that is being lost due to the melt.

The reason the ice melts in the arctic is because, most of it sits on top of ocean, and while the air temperature rarely rises high enough to melt ice, the water temperature does.

If you have any more questions feel free to ask, but otherwise feel free to investigate for yourself.

Your sitting in front of the single most powerful information gathering tool ever invented, and to use it to spread denier talking points rather then actually look for facts seems like a waste of effort.

Al Gore was famous in the U.S. as a pathalogical liar, on many different topics, for years before he grabbed onto this global warming thing.