doubthouse

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

doubthouse (uncountable)

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