icehouse

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Tyrannoroter lived near the end of the Carboniferous Period, a time of major climate change and the last icehouse to greenhouse transition before the one occurring today.

From Science Daily

As ice locked up water, vast shallow seas dried out, triggering an "icehouse climate" and radically altering ocean chemistry.

From Science Daily

The musician, who would become synonymous with Key West, started leasing the old icehouse in the city’s historic seaport district in 1986.

From The Wall Street Journal

The icehouse, used as a living space, became “a site of convivial socializing among musicians and cognoscenti.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The Earth today is like an icehouse, with ice sheets at both poles and comparatively lower carbon dioxide concentrations, but this has been rare rather than commonplace through the planet's history.

From Salon