Mount Rainier Is, Reaching a Tipping Point , as Glaciers Rapidly Decline.br According to estimates from a National Park Service report, increasing temperatures have already melted br three glaciers on Mount Rainier, NBC News reports. .br The report, published earlier this month, presents further evidence of the world's declining mountain ice. .br Compared to 1896, the total mass br of ice on Mount Rainier is less br than half of what it used to be.br According to the report, the pace of ice loss br on the tallest volcano in the lower br 48 states is increasing.br We’re getting to a tipping point on br some of the south-facing glaciers. br We’re reaching points where there’sbr really not a lot of ice to be lost, Scott Beason, Geologist at Mount Rainier National Park, via NBC.br The area change br is accelerating in br the last six years. , Scott Beason, Geologist at Mount Rainier National Park, via NBC.br That’s kind of br a big, scary thing, Scott Beason, Geologist at Mount Rainier National Park, via NBC.br NBC reports that Mount Rainier's glaciers provide br drinking water, feed mountain springs and turn br hydropower turbines to generate energy.br It’s going to turn into a darker-looking br mountain. Everything is going br to look different in the next br century because of this. It will be br interesting to see how we adapt. , Scott Beason, Geologist at Mount Rainier National Park, via NBC.br According to scientists who contributed to the br United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, br glaciers around the globe are in prolonged decline.