If a forest fire was coming up over the ridge, you might take various options to try to save your home and your kids, or you could put it off until tomorrow. I'm not sure that the last option will work.

The Arctic is on track to release an estimated 1.7 trillion tons of additional greenhouse gases into Eaarth's atmosphere. I read in Smithsonian Magazine an estimate of 1100 ppm of greenhouse gases in one century if we do nothing. That's not acceptable, and the Arctic meltdown isn't an acceptable part of this worldwide catastrophe.

The arctic icemaker is a windmill/turbine that pumps seawater above the existing Arctic Ocean’s ice pack when the temperature is below 0 degrees Fahrenheit. 

It floats on perhaps four cones (in all honesty, four octagonal cones were easiest to draw).  As it pumps seawater on top and builds up ice on top, the new ice pack sinks 90% into the ocean.  To avoid being dragged down by the ice pack, every cone and the central pipe all have heating wires.  Seawater gradually oozes up around the heating wires, floating the cones upward as ice is built up and sinks. Every so often the cones break free of the existing ice around them, assisted by heating wires, and the device rises a few inches.  The floats are cones in order to break free easily and then rise, time and again. 

 

In the center of the four cones is the windmill/turbine.  The windmill part pumps up and down using a crank, raising seawater.  The turbine generates electricity for an onboard computer and for the heating wires.  A battery is needed for days of zero wind.

 

In the drawing a square center chunk of an extremely wide block of 70 foot deep ice is shown.  We may only want to have an ice thickness of 14 feet, the typical pre-climate ice thickness, or we may want to lay ice away.  The seawater surface level is represented by a transparent circle.

 

 

 

 

 I would expect the world's developed nations to pay roughly $10 billion per year to deploy these devices in the Arctic Ocean. Your share, if you're from a developed nation, would be about $5/year. Trust me, it's a bargain.

We also need wind-powered snow making machines that coat the tundra with snow in late spring and in early fall. They would help to prevent massive tundra fires and would restore the albedo of each small section of tundra.