doubthouse

English

Etymology

Compound of doubt +‎ house. Coined by American geoscientist Kenneth G. Miller in 1992.

Noun

doubthouse (uncountable)

  1. (climatology) An uncertain state of the global climate, neither greenhouse nor icehouse, ascribed by some paleoclimatologists to the late Eocene.
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