This situation was addressed, among several others, in a great series of three books by Kim Stanley Robinson -- Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, Sixty Days and Counting. These are a story of the impact of global weather change, based on hard science, wrapped in the lives of some very interesting characters. Must reads for anyone interested in the impact of climate change, as well as near-future scifi fans.

HAHAHA... groping for disaster:)

Very nice propaganda piece. Mislead, misdirect and imply. Using fact to mislead, is a classic propaganda strategy.
In this case, the sensational claim, "the system could cross a threshold known as "critical slowing down," which would make it unstable and likely lead to relatively sudden collapse – on the scale of months."
Should be completely ignored. Since they also said, " predicts AMOC collapse in around 800 years." Eight. Hundred. Years. Just to be clear, these same idiots aren't able to say we are definitely in an El Nino event now, while it is happening.

let's hope the modeling for this is a bit better than the CDC's "1.4 million ebola cases by January" ridiculous alarm blast. Also this conveyor belt business is serious. Is that [disastrous breakdown in this mechanism] what we need for "leaders" to finally start being responsible? WE CAN'T WAIT FOR RESPONSIBLE LEADERS. We have to start being responsible citizens.

So they used the FAMOUS climate model to come up with their assumptions that may or may not be correct. Some science!!! All the other hundreds of climate models , graphs and charts have been wrong in their predictions and what makes these researchers think this "FAMOUS" model is any different? Bottom line is the last 2 paragraphs sums it up that the study from the model tells them absolutely nothing concerning the real world. No model built by man can ever duplicate what occurs in the real natural world.

We expect this disaster in 800 years, with confirmation in just over 500 years? Is it too soon to start drinking?

My money will be invested in learning how the Eskimo survives. Anybody foolish enough to believe we humans will be able to turn up the Earth's thermostat may be in for a very rude surprise from Mother Nature. Just like Mom at home you never mess with her thermostat!

I really love it when the science deniers use the web to bash science... oh, the delicious irony!

The US as a conveyor belt stopped functioning around the time Kennedy was killed.
Such a lovely planet, or it was. Bye. Bye.

I really love it when reality deniers keep saying calling people who are skeptical about one facet of climate science, namely AWG, "deniers" as if they are ignorant or creationalist or something.
The fact is it takes more faith to believe in the "science" of AGW than not. There is absolutely no "science" that has proven that the doubling of a trace that is still only a percentage of a percentage of the make up of the Earth's air is driving recent warming when the Earth has been warming and cooling during this interglacial period for thousands of years. Fact is we maybe heading for an extended cooling period soon.
But just keep screaming "deniers" from your AGW temple. The believers will chant your proclamations.