  Herein I respond to the criticism and to the complains by Benestad (Pattern
Recogn. Phys. 1, 91-92, 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/prp-1-91-2013) of
Scafetta (Pattern Recogn. Phys. 1, 37-57, 2013,
http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/prp-1-37-2013) that I found misleading and not
tenable. More significantly, Benestad did not find any physical nor
mathematical error in Scafetta's work. Thus, Scafetta scientific results remain
fully confirmed.
