What is the Last Glacial Maximum if it is not glacial?
It didn’t reced at all. If you use the original definition, it is the area covered by an ice body at its latest major extent, or its furthest position achieved during the last majot glacial episode. A later usage referred to a climatic period. Neither usage involves a retreat, but rather _an advance_. You may as well say that an Olympic record recedes as soon as the Games are declared closed. No. A maximum recorded value is a maximum recorde value, and it does not shrink, no matter what you think.
