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Adam Frank

  • Contributor, Forbes
  • Professor of Astrophysics, University of Rochester
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Astrophysicist. Author of the Everyman's Universe newsletter and The Little Book of Aliens. Stuff shows up at The Atlantic, NYT, etc
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These Fires And Heat Waves Show Why They Call It Global Warming Original

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By Adam Frank
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Satellite view of fired in Canada in 2025 (Photo by Gallo Images/Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data 2025) Gallo Images via Getty Images In 1986, long before most people had ever heard of global warming or climate change, I went into the office of my new boss at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and asked her what we were doing. I’d been hired as junior scientific programmer a couple of weeks before.
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Does Disclosure Day Deliver? An Astrobiologist’s Take. Original

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By Adam Frank
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PARIS, FRANCE - JUNE 01: (EDITOR’S NOTE: Image has been retouched at the request of the client.) Steven Spielberg attends the “Disclosure Day” Paris photocall at Shangri-La Hotel Paris on June 01, 2026 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pierre Mouton/Getty Images for Universal Pictures) Getty Images for Universal Pictures I was excited to finally get into the theater for Steven Spielberg’s UFO blockbuster Disclosure Day.
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There’s Good Climate And Bad Climate News: An Astrophysicist Explains Original

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By Adam Frank
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O (Photo by Lukas Schulze/Getty Images) Getty Images Human beings are an extraordinary successful species. We went from having less than million of us (all in Africa) a few hundred thousand years ago to now covering the globe at 8 billion strong. But all that success comes with a price. The energy we’ve harvested from the planet (mostly in the form of stored solar energy i.e. fossil fuels) has changed the atmosphere and is now pushing the climate system into an uncharted direction.
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