Take a look at the temperatures of the 3 largest cities in the Canadian Arctic right now, they are spread apart by thousands of kilometers and each of them are waaaaay below freezing temperature, far in excess of what is required to freeze the ice.So it is not a localized cool area, the temps are well below what is needed to cause freezing across the canadian arctic. Not to mention they are in the southern arctic, it will be even colder in the high arctic. He's dead wrong plain and simple. No fancy wording or verbal dance moves will change that.