Well, there is a third possibility. But why won't the writer put it on the paper?
It is possible that the oceans have not warmed up at all. But to speak such would be heresy in The Church of the Holy Global Warming.
Maybe the data are telling the scientists that their current atmospheric “models” are wrong? Nah, that wouldn’t be it. Their models are infallible.
Yeah, isn’t funny how how he just kind of glides by the rather obvious third possibility? In true leftist fashion, he has “unpersoned” the idea that global warming might not be real.