Afternoon sun hits Mount Rainier (14,411 feet elevation) and lupine flowers on Sunrise Ridge, in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA. Lupinus is a genus in the pea family (also called the legume, bean, or pulse family, Latin name Fabaceae or Leguminosae). Published since 2013 on StayRainier.com and AltaCrystalResort.com web sites; and on 2015 Alta Crystal Resort Summer Brochure. Published in National Parks Traveler digital magazine hard copy, digital, & web, NationalParksTraveler.com. Global warming and climate change: Mount Rainier’s glaciers shrank 22% by area and 25% by volume between 1913 and 1994 in conjunction with rising temperatures (Nylen 2004). As of 2009, monitored glaciers are continuing to retreat (NPS). Over the last century, most glaciers have been shrinking across western North America (Moore et al. 2009) and the globe (Lemke et al. 2007) in association with increasing temperatures.
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