Reply to 'Limited Late Antique cooling'

• Authors: BÜNTGEN Ulf; MYGLAN V.S.; LJUNGQVIST F.C.; MCCORMICK M.; DI COSMO N.; SIGL M.; JUNGCLAUS J.; WAGNER S.; KRUSIC P.J.; ESPER J.; KAPLAN J.O.; DE VAAN M.A.C.; LUTERBACHER J.; WACKER L.; TEGEL W.; SOLOMINA O.N.; NICOLUSSI K.; OPPENHEIMER C.; REINIG F.; KIRDYANOV A.V.
• Year of publication: 2017
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: Nature Geoscience
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Science
• Web: https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo2927
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2927
• Keywords: climate; Common Era
• Description: We agree with Helama et al. in their call for further research into the climate of the first half of the Common Era. However, we argue that they underestimate the combined efficacy of environmental, archaeological and historical indicators in establishing a prolonged period of cold summers across much of the Northern Hemisphere landmass between 536 and about 660 ad, which we term the Late Antique Little Ice Age.