Figure 10.

The mode and tempo of climate change during the last interglacial period, MIS 5e, (dashed horizontal red lines) was more like the ice age than the Holocene (dashed horizontal green lines). (A) Atmospheric methane concentration from the EDC ice core from Dome C in East Antarctica on the EDC3 timescale. YD is the Younger Dryas. Redrawn from Tzedakis (2010). (B) Holocene and last interglacial δ¹⁸O records from Greenland ice cores. The Holocene data are from the NGRIP core plotted on the GICC05 time scale (Rasmussen et al., 2014). The last interglacial time series is the Greenland synthetic record whose timescale is based on alignment with Chinese speleothem records (Barker et al., 2011). Redrawn from Tzedakis et al. (2012). (C) Relative sea level (RSL; red line) in the Red Sea during the warmest part of the last interglacial. The pink error envelope is ±6 m. The Holocene RSL curve (green line) is redrawn from a compilation by R.A. Rohde based on Fleming et al. (1998) and Milne, Long, & Bassett (2005). The error envelope joins the extremes of estimated errors.