Not exact matches
To get the gist of the PBR
argument, consider a
simple card game
between you and a dealer involving two decks of cards.
While the political debate that unfolds
between Stanley and John during that scene is as forced as the road trip formula that outlines the plot, this emotional
argument rings true, especially for us who are critical of Stanley's decision, and a moment of
simple brotherly love that caps the scene is truly touching.
Simple arguments based on the expected «polar amplification «and the fact that the surface temperature gradient
between the tropics and the poles will likely decrease would reduce the scope for «baroclinic instability» (the main generator of mid-latitudes storms).
Held and Soden's paper (linked in the article) do document some changes in the moisture transport that differ
between equilibrium and transient runs, but these are affected by circulation changes and it's not clear that one can get at them through
simple thermodynamic
arguments.
By the way, my
arguments assume that tokamak physics and technology works well and is reasonably
simple, meaning that not many more components will have to be added to the system to allow it to operate on a steady basis for very long periods of time
between the long shutdowns needed to change out radiation - damaged, radioactive materials.