Reply to Strunz and Braeckel: Agricultural failures logically link historical events to extreme climate following the 43 BCE Okmok eruption

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV 89512; Joe.McConnell@dri.edu.
• ² Sir Nicholas Shackleton Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9AL, United Kingdom.
• ³ Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
• ⁴ Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
• ⁵ School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom.
• ⁶ Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3LU, United Kingdom.
• ⁷ School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TG, United Kingdom.
• ⁸ Department of History, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520.
• ⁹ Department of Classics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520.
• ¹⁰ Yale School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511.
• ¹¹ Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities, Department of History, School of Histories & Humanities, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland.
• ¹² Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV 89512.