The paper 'On the state-dependency of the equilibrium climate sensitivity during the last 5 million years' by Peter Köhler, Bas de Boer, Anna S. von der Heydt, Lennert B. Stap, and Roderik S. W. van de Wal has received two careful reviews. After reading the reviews and the replies by the authors, I encourage the authors to submit a revised version along the lines suggested by your replies to the reviewer's comments. The revised ms. will be sent out to review again.
Please include a version of the revised ms. that allows to track the changes, which will simplify the work of reviewers and editor.

Sincerely Yours

Uwe Mikolajewicz

Dear Drs. Koehler, de Boer, von der Heydt, Stap, and van de Wal,

your paper has now been seen by the same two reviewers again. Both are satisfied with your replies and the changes you have made in the manuscripts, and so am I, except for one minor detail. In figure 2 the label 'deltaTNH(K)' is partially obscured. Could you fix this?

After fixing this technical detail your paper will be accepted for publication in Climate of the Past.

Sincerely Yours

uwe mikolajewicz