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Interglacial and future sea level

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A merger of data and modelling using a probabilistic approach indicates that sea level was much higher during the last interglacial than it is now, providing telling clues about future ice-sheet responses to warming.

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Figure 1: Similarity of latitudinal warming (ΔT) during the last interglacial and a projection for the late twenty-first century.

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  1. Peter U. Clark is in the Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA. clarkp@onid.orst.edu,

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  2. Peter Huybers is in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. phuybers@fas.harvard.edu,

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Clark, P., Huybers, P. Interglacial and future sea level. Nature 462, 856–857 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/462856a

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