Arctic ice decline:

Most recent:

Global temperature trend:

Obviously, the world is not moving into an ice age, only the deluded, the gullible and the brain and mind damaged can believe we are moving into an ice age. Nevertheless there is a platoon of snake oil sellers deluding people, like Booby, that we are moving into an ice age. Just look on Twitter searching the hashtags of #grandsolarminimum, #globalcooling, #miniiceage etc.
Parts of the Arctic were above 0.0°C for 61 days this NH winter just past. Sixty one days above freezing in the middle of the Arctic winter! There is something awesome about that fact. The 2016/17 winter saw similar winter warming. Before winter 2016/17 there were Arctic winter warming events but not back to back like in the previous two winters.
Now, how does the Arctic warm in winter? The sun is not even above the horizon for
months! Deluded numpties like Booby and Lees here would say “volcanoes!” Unfortunately for them those volcanoes and the ones under West Antarctica have been there for millions of years and there have been no major eruptions explaining the retreat of the ice.
The Arctic warms in winter by warm air pushing in via a high pressure ridge over Siberia. The “Beast from the East” was Arctic air pushed out from the Arctic. The Beast from the East got all the attention from Dubyne and his fellow snake oil sellers and the warm Arctic got ignored. Globally temperatures did not drop while the Beast from the East chilled parts of Europe, the average northern hemisphere temperature remained above normal.
The Arctic warming in winter affects what is called the Arctic Vortex. I will need to explain that, I guess.
In the tropics the air is warm and by the gas laws the atmosphere there expands—the limit of the atmosphere is high. In the polar areas the air is cold and the atmosphere contracts, the limit of the atmosphere is low. Just like a kid riding his gokart down a hill the air in the upper layers of the tropical atmosphere are pulled by gravity to where the upper atmosphere is lower, over the poles.
So this Vortex is air coming down over the Arctic. The Coriolis force turns this into a band of wind around the limit of the Vortex which keeps the Arctic air contained.
Obviously, when the Arctic is warmed the poiar vortex weakens and Arctic air can be pushed out of the Arctic, creating the Beast from the East and the cold spring in the NE of the US.
I have posted YouTubes by a renowned atmospere scientist, search the thread here and watch them and hopefully learn.