This is really just a technical correction, but I've got into the habit of clicking "minor revision" as only then I can check that the correction has been made before final acceptance. (It is so disappointing if a paper get published with a known glitch!).

"3.1 Accelerating & Decelerating Emissions"

I assume that this title needs to be changed. I fully agree with reviewer 2 that you need to be completely clear about whether the emissions are actually accelerating/decelerating or only increasing/decreasing.

Otherwise this seems like a nice paper. At GMD every model, code or experiment protocol being proposed needs to have been tested (shown to work). It is interesting to me that you have chosen to test your experiment with an EMIC as this might spur others to see whether they get similar results in GCMs sooner rather than later! In this context, it would be appropriate to make your model output publicly available. Would that be possible?