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comment and welcome the opportunity to respond. Kilbourne et al.1 make the argument that if more proxies from the North Atlantic had been considered, the conclusion reached in Caesar et al.2

would have been different. Although it is certainly true that a comprehensive set of palaeoceanographic proxy data available in the North Atlantic region shows a complex picture of the

evolution of the North Atlantic over the past two millennia3, most of these proxies are not strongly linked to the strength of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). This is

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(Grant-Aid Agreement no. PBA/CC/18/01) is carried out with the support of the Marine Institute under the Marine Research Programme funded by the Irish Government. D.J.R.T. is supported by UK

NERC grant NE/S009736/1. AUTHOR INFORMATION AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * Irish Climate Analysis and Research Units (ICARUS), Department of Geography, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland L.

Caesar, G. D. McCarthy & N. Cahill * Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany L. Caesar & S. Rahmstorf * Department

of Geography, University College London, London, UK D. J. R. Thornalley * Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Maynooth University, Kildare, Ireland N. Cahill * Institute of Physics and

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