Dan Lunt

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A still from Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) where the fellowship attempts to cross the Misty Mountains. New Line Cinema

March 11, 2026

John Cook, The University of Melbourne; Alex Farnsworth, University of Bristol; Dan Lunt, University of Bristol, and Dann Mitchell, University of Bristol

It’s a seemingly whimsical exercise, but it serves serious purposes.

The near future may be similar to the mid-Pliocene warm period a few million years ago. Daniel Eskridge / shutterstock

November 1, 2021

Dan Lunt, University of Bristol and Darrell Kaufman, Northern Arizona University

What climate changes in the distant past can tell us about the near future.

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April 4, 2017

Gavin Foster, University of Southampton; Dana Royer, Wesleyan University, and Dan Lunt, University of Bristol

The sun is more powerful today than when we last had similar levels of carbon in the atmosphere.