Paleoclimate records have been used to estimate the modern equilibrium climate sensitivity. However, this requires understanding how the feedbacks governing the climate response vary with the climate itself. Here we warm and cool a state-of-the-art climate model to simulate a continuum of climates ranging from a nearly ice-covered Snowball Earth to a nearly ice-free hothouse. We find that the pre-industrial (PI) climate is near a stability optimum: warming leads to a less-stable (more-sensitive) climate, as does cooling of more than 2K. Physically interpreting the results, we find that the decrease in stability for climates colder than the PI occurs mainly due to the albedo and lapse-rate feedbacks, and the decrease in stability for warmer climates occurs mainly due to the cloud feedback. These results imply that paleoclimate records provide a stronger constraint than has been calculated in previous studies, suggesting a reduction in the uncertainty range of the climate sensitivity.
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