I have an idea to protect the Arctic ice from melting

There's a huge problem - energy cannot be destroyed so to cool one place, you have to move the energy away to somewhere else which will heat that place.     Also, the effort in moving the energy will also generate more heat so the net effect of trying to cool something is that you actually generate heating.

Ah, I'm stumped now! There needs to be a way of moving that energy somewhere harmless. Could it be blasted out into space? Or deep down into the earth's molten crust?

Anything you do to move energy creates heat - so no, it's a problem.    Also, the amount of energy needed for what you're talking about is probably many times the entire energy production of the world.      The earth's temperature is completely driven by the sun - the energy levels are staggering.

Anything you do to move energy creates heat - so no, it's a problem.    Also, the amount of energy needed for what you're talking about is probably many times the entire energy production of the world.      The earth's temperature is completely driven by the sun - the energy levels are staggering.

Interesting article on Albido (measure of the diffuse reflection of solar radiation out of the total solar radiation) in Wikipedia:

en.wikipedia.org/.../Albedo

" ... Earth's average surface temperature due to its albedo and the greenhouse effect is currently about 15 °C. If Earth were frozen entirely (and hence be more reflective), the average temperature of the planet would drop below −40 °C. If only the continental land masses became covered by glaciers, the mean temperature of the planet would drop to about 0 °C. In contrast, if the entire Earth was covered by water – a so-called ocean planet – the average temperature on the planet would rise to almost 27 °C. ... ".

White snow and clouds reflect quite a lot of solar radiation back in to space.  Maybe have artifical clouds, some white or refective material to combat greenhouse effect?

I don't want to get into the whole global warming thing but if you do some digging, all of the data is false - London was supposed to be under water by 2000.      The whole 97% on scientists agreeing is an outright lie - and you'd be horrified at how they faked the numbers to get to that answer.

That's worrying. Perhaps mankind's fate is sealed, and we will be reduced to a very small population if the sea gobbles up a lot more of the land and all the ice caps melt and we end up with not much drinking water left which the glaciers have provided.