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In their comment, Brook and Severinghaus suggest that rates of methane decrease elsewhere in the record are higher than our computations1 and that it is unlikely that methane concentrations contributed substantially to the temperature decline during the Younger Dryas event.

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  1. Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 87131, New Mexico, USA

    Felisa A. Smith

  2. Climate, Ocean, Sea Ice Modeling Team, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, 87545, New Mexico, USA

    Scott M. Elliott

  3. Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 20013, Washington DC, USA

    S. Kathleen Lyons

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