The study was written by two climate scientists - one at Woods Hole Oceanographic and the other at the University of Miami. You could see this yourself if you bothered to look at the study. Do you just come here to troll? You don't seem to have anything useful to say.
I read the article/study in its entirety and will now show that it is alarmist (at best) and written by people who's careers are maintained by being published (the worst).
I will keep the mathematics at the 4th grade level and keep this short and sweet so no one can say "I just skipped the dissertation, I refuse to read all that you troll!"
Recorded history is ~4000 years. Some may argue that it is longer than this but it only improves my point.
Scientifically rigorous recorded history of the gulf stream is 40 years (from the study)
The last major extinction was 65,000,000 years ago (caused definitively by an asteroid, not dinosaur farts or other causes)
So we have been rigorously monitoring the gulf stream for 1% of recorded human history.
We have been rigorously monitoring the gulf stream for 0.0000000006% of earth's history since the last major extinction.
Making projections based on such limited data is like predicting the weather 4 days from now, in the former case and exclaiming "the temperature dropped 20 degrees from yesterday to today, therefore tomorrow it will drop another 20, the day after that 20, and so on thus we will be 80 degrees colder in 4 days (or using the study's numbers- 160 years).
The phrase in the article reading "the worry is that's just the slow start" is where everyone's BS alarm should start to go off. What justifies this worry? It certainly isn't the data that has been collected over the past 40 years.
You may as well start to worry about continental drift, and what we can do to stop it! If
recent projections worked out on a supercomputer are true - they're not- notice Florida does not disappear as both poles completely melt (ha ha ha).If that ridiculously priced study is correct, all the continents will come together in around 250 million years, the gulf stream will definitely be completely gone.
Conclusion: Article is alarmist. Linked study is well written, but clearly not definitive.
Let's start putting that collective brainpower to solving problems that exist right now, that are solvable- Not doing service to movies like "The day after tomorrow" that show this current collapsing in
weeks.