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’s<br />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.<br />Scientists warn that the trends have been driven by <br />the human use of fossil fuels and an accumulation <br />of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere
