Red Pencil's inference is that that body of water is always 1 degree cooler than today.
As such he is expressing the Green's "Static View" of climate where nothing can change without the intervention of man. We all know this is garbage but no-one is prepared to call them out lest they be bullied.
Now to most of those with Arts degrees, like the Greens, this makes perfect sense due to their inbuilt elitist bias and fear of being bullied. The tragedy is how sections of Science have been poisoned with this Greening.
Usually the most degenerate field of fake science is medical research and drug trial results. We can now add to this champ any field that is touched by the Greens.
In recent history when Stalin took over Russian universities we got the "Red Professors". When the nazis took over in Germany we got the "Fascist Professors". With the Green takeover of Science today we are getting "Degenerate Professors". Nothing new, scientists are not known for courage.
Look at Galileo, when threatened with torture he went to water and began teaching that the earth was the centre of the universe.
