Thank you for the extensive revisions of this paper. I am comfortable with those revisions and can recommend publication after discussion of two minor issues. I don't think that the use of the word "perfectly" to describe the agreement of air temperature and cave temperature, or reconstructed cave temperature vs. measured cave temperature, is warranted. In general we can't do any reconstructions "perfectly" so some more precise statement about the agreement should be made. This is just a small point but I think it should be corrected.

Also, the abstract does not mention your actual temperature reconstructions both estimating modern values and what you obtain for pre-modern samples. I feel that the paper could be made more accessible if this information were in the abstract.

Thank you for addressing my last two comments. I am happy for the paper to go forward to publication now.