Dear Dr. Chiessi
I have read the comments by the two-reviewers and your very detailed answer, and I think that the manuscript is of significantly higher quality. I do think, however, that the link between your very detailed record and that from Consuelo lake (Bush et al, 2004) is rather weak, as already stated by reviewer #2. However, the text in section 5.2 still suggest a stronger link that what the data indicates. While both records show an increase in temperature (MAT and lake temperature) for the period, the record from Consuelo lake shows such large variability, and low temporal resolution, that makes it somewhat unreliable for the timescale of this study, and a diservice to your record. Extrapolating the conclusions from your record towards the whole South-American sub-continent would be a great contribution, but given the poor very poor correlation and only rather broad agreement between both records leads me to ask you to re-write section 5.2 page 15 lines 15 -25.