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Simply saying there’s more ice doesn’t attempt to get to the bottom of it.

“At the end of the last Ice Age, the air became warmer and carried more moisture across the continent, doubling the amount of snow dropped on the ice sheet,” Zwally said

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-o...

We should start to go deeper.

Further, the submitted article here directly addresses it

"Schaefer said the temperature of the peninsula, the South Shetland Islands and the James Ross archipelago, which Seymour is part of, has been erratic over the past 20 years. After cooling in the first decade of this century, it has warmed rapidly.:

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