Mark Serreze commented that he thinks geoengineering the Arctic is a bad idea.
He seems to be in agreement with this assessment from 1975, when climatologists wanted to melt the Arctic ice cap to stop global cooling.
The Cooling World
Newsweek, April 28, 1975
They concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve.
If they diverted the rivers flowing into the Arctic the ocean would dry up!
Giant parabolic mirrors at the equator directing sunlight toward the poles will transform those regions into new tropical getaways!
Black soot on Arctic ice, shhhya
alarmism through the years
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwZLbFm-X3Q