Elena M. Aizen¹, Vladimir B Aizen II¹, Nozomu Takeuchi², Koji Fujita³, Charles Rodda⁴, Paul Andrew Mayewski⁴ and Baiqing Xu⁵, (1)University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, (2)Chiba University, Department of Earth Sciences, Chiba, Japan, (3)Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (4)University of Maine, Climate Change Institute, Orono, ME, United States, (5)Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China