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We acknowledge instructive comments by P. Bakker to improve this study. We also thank Y. Sun and Z. Fu for preparing the figures, and E. J. Gowan, X. Xiao and W. Xiao for helpful discussions. This study is supported by the Basic Science Center for Tibetan Plateau Earth System (BSCTPES, NSFC project No. 41988101) and the National Science Foundation of China (no. 42075047).
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X.Z. initiated and developed this study by pointing out roles of sea ice change in global mean annual temperature. X.Z. and F.C. contributed equally to the writing of the Comment.
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Zhang, X., Chen, F. Non-trivial role of internal climate feedback on interglacial temperature evolution. Nature 600, E1–E3 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03930-4
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