Just a quick note to say that the paleoclimate data for earlier warm periods 125,000 years ago and even 8 - 10,000 years ago in northern Alaska (paleoclimate warmer than now, [from]
different forcings) document the northward advance of the treeline from Nome to Barrow, Alaska, and the Canadian border at
different times of change in Earth's
orbital parameters (without a significant change in CO2).
The water and land locations were significantly
different, as were the
orbital dynamics — see Laskar et al (2010, etc) or Jack Wisdom (Google is your friend here) for the
orbital parameters and other factors.