thermalized

The reason why it is uncertain is that the society is a very complex system and the consequences of a decision that we can make right now will be "thermalized" - i.e. challenged, compensated, and overcompensated by many, often deliberately opposite decisions in the future.

The Reference Frame 2010

Local thermodynamic equilibrium requires all the energy involved in these energy transitions be 'thermalized' (I think that's the term).

RealClimate 2009

Local thermodynamic equilibrium requires all the energy involved in these energy transitions be 'thermalized' (I think that's the term).

RealClimate 2009

Local thermodynamic equilibrium requires all the energy involved in these energy transitions be 'thermalized' (I think that's the term).

RealClimate 2009

Local thermodynamic equilibrium requires all the energy involved in these energy transitions be 'thermalized' (I think that's the term).

RealClimate 2009

Local thermodynamic equilibrium requires all the energy involved in these energy transitions be 'thermalized' (I think that's the term).

RealClimate 2009

Local thermodynamic equilibrium requires all the energy involved in these energy transitions be 'thermalized' (I think that's the term).

RealClimate 2009

As a result CO_2 holds thermalized energy in the IR band readily, and the gas is more opaque to IR photons.

Scientist Discusses Latest Report of Rising Global Temperatures | Universe Today 2010

Useful work can be done by molecules by a direct transfer of stored energy, and thermalized energy cannot be converted into stored energy within the same system, the system being the extent over which thermal and other rapidly exchanging energies equilibrate.

An Interview with Elisabet Sahtouris 2007

Since the outflux equals the influx of radiant heat, that means that at least some of the outgoing radiation must be emitted at a temperature lower than that at which the incoming was thermalized so Q/T is higher.

Archive 2009-03-01 EliRabett 2009