Societal collapse, predicted in 1972, coming mid-century

https://interestingengineering.com/mit-predicted-the-collapse-of-todays-society-in-1972-and-were-still-on-track

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Possible climate transitions from breakup of stratocumulus decks under greenhouse warming
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-019-0310-1
Stratocumulus clouds cover 20% of the low-latitude oceans and are especially prevalent in the subtropics. They cool the Earth by shading large portions of its surface from sunlight. However, as their dynamical scales are too small to be resolvable in global climate models, predictions of their response to greenhouse warming have remained uncertain. Here we report how stratocumulus decks respond to greenhouse warming in large-eddy simulations that explicitly resolve cloud dynamics in a representative subtropical region. In the simulations, stratocumulus decks become unstable and break up into scattered clouds when CO2 levels rise above 1,200 ppm. In addition to the warming from rising CO2 levels, this instability triggers a surface warming of about 8 K globally and 10 K in the subtropics. Once the stratocumulus decks have broken up, they only re-form once CO2 concentrations drop substantially below the level at which the instability first occurred. Climate transitions that arise from this instability may have contributed importantly to hothouse climates and abrupt climate changes in the geological past. Such transitions to a much warmer climate may also occur in the future if CO2 levels continue to rise.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/15/amazon-rainforest-now-releasing-more-carbon-than-it-absorbs-study.html
The Amazon rainforest is emitting more carbon emissions than it can absorb, according to a new study.

The rainforest was once a carbon sink — meaning it absorbed more carbon than it released — but it now accounts for more than 1 billion metric tons of emissions every year, mainly due to forest fires and deforestation.

There is a strange decline in quality of crops, especially buckwheat.
Nothing in the media.

>>4 there is some hint of quality loss, but nothing about Buckwheat literally turning to shit..
https://www.graincentral.com/markets/eu-harvest-adds-to-the-global-wheat-dilemma/
Harvest rains and quality issues have been observed across most of France, the western parts of Germany and large parts of Poland. The wet weather did extend further west into Belarus and south as far as northern Italy, but impact on crop quality was not as drastic. In the north of the continent, a hotter than usual July in Sweden, the Baltic states and Finland affected grain-filling of spring and winter cereal crops as soil moisture ran out early.

Here is some agricultural director complaining about shitty buckwheat in Far East.
https://katun24.ru/news/660425
«Гречка в этом году неважная. Я думаю, что это всё из-за температуры. Вот непосредственно берём верхний ярус, и тут мы находим всего 4-5 зернинки. А остальное – это всё пустоцвет», – отмечает гендиректор «Целинагропромснаб» Сергей Подлесных. Edited on 15/09/2021 03:49.

Here is farmer complaining about shitty buckwheat in Far East.
Here is some agricultural director complaining about shitty buckwheat in Far East.
https://katun24.ru/news/660425
«Гречка в этом году неважная. Я думаю, что это всё из-за температуры. Вот непосредственно берём верхний ярус, и тут мы находим всего 4-5 зернинки. А остальное – это всё пустоцвет», – отмечает гендиректор «Целинагропромснаб» Сергей Подлесных.