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There's a significant error in the location of the black bar to show where the "last glacial/interglacial transition" occurred. In the text it stated it occurred at 20,000 years, but on the graph it is positioned closer to 20 million years. Obviously an error in reading the x-axis.

Apart from the fact that the last glacial maximum ended around 12,000 years ago.Rolf Schmidt (talk) 04:55, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just realised that I misunderstood the black bar, as it's just meant to show the range of sl change in the past cycle, not the point in time. I do think that this can easily be misunderstood by others, and it might be better to place the black bar directly on the y-axis. Rolf Schmidt (talk) 05:02, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree the location of the black bar is very confusing, especially its location at 20M years rather than 20k years. OsamaBinLogin (talk) 17:20, 7 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Raw data[edit]

"This figure was prepared by Robert A. Rohde from publicly available data and is incorporated into the Global Warming Art project."

It would be great if image pages in general would tell us where to find the publicly available data. Joseph449008 (talk) 17:33, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's below, in the references section. 140.180.25.7 (talk) 00:49, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Direction[edit]

The sense of the vertical scale is inverted from common interpretation: high sea levels are at the bottom, and low sea levels are at the top. This is confusing. It should at least be explained in the text.OsamaBinLogin (talk) 17:20, 7 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]