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For Adam Frank, the weirder a question is the better.

Adam's an astrophysicist who's interested in looking for life in deep space.

And a few years back, he had a thought.

I was interested in amazingly enough.

I was interested in whether or not aliens trigger climate change on their own planets.

I mean, literally.

Maybe rapid climate change on a faraway planet could be a sign of an advanced civilization.

It may be any civilization that has to mature through the phase that we're going through.

We'll do this.

Adam wanted a second opinion, so he started running his idea by some climate scientists.

And of course, you know, this is a pretty crazy idea.

It's like, hey, I want to talk to you about aliens and climate change.

So I always have to sort of do this back, pedaling because I expect people to raise their

eyebrows.

Which is exactly the reaction he kept getting, until he got to Gavin Schmidt.

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