I would suggest that an involuntary geoforming experiment on one's own home planet - which so far is slowly but steadily making it less habitable - may not be the smartest thing a species should be doing.
Like, you can ignore all sorts of science under the guise that it was bad science. Anything biology and beyond has some sort of issue with methodology.
However, a physical ship, bringing products/oil, in a previously frozen area, was undeniable.
Who would have thought it was a logistics person that flipped me rather than a scientist.
Maybe I have a deep seeded conservative bent(my parents are...), but a different environment in my lifetime sounds scary AF.
A subarea of Antarctica, where they expected ice to decrease, gained ice. Antarctica as a whole lost ice.
One reason could be that this subarea is an area where ice is lost from, but also an area where ice from Antarctica moves to. So as ice in general melts, some of it also gets relocated to this area.