“…Brief cooling roughly coeval with the Oort Minimum occurs in the Mediterranean sites 6, 13, 21, 37, 59, AA1, and AA3 (Figures 3, 5, S2, S3, S4, and S9). The physical processes that may link solar activity, ocean cycles and climate are still very much unclear but are being actively researched (e.g., Arblaster & Meehl, 2006;Hassan et al, 2016;Kuroda & Kodera, 2005;Li & Xiao, 2018;Mehta & Lau, 1997;Nuzhdina, 2002;Roy & Haigh, 2011;Salas et al, 2016;Yan et al, 2011). Nevertheless, a large amount of empirical evidence has been published which suggests a significant solarforced component in Mediterranean palaeotemperatures.…”