Climate skeptics regularly work themselves into a lather dismissing mainstream climate science as fantasy – but for once they have a point. A researcher at Bristol University has trained his powerful supercomputer not at predicting the earth’s future climate, but on the fictional world of Middle Earth – the backdrop for JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. To reproduce Middle Earth’s climate, Dr Dan Lunt, an expert on past climate change, traced one of Tolkein’s […]
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