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Piers Forster Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
Piers Forster works on the planetary energy budget, radiative forcing, climate feedback and climate sensitivity. He is a coordinating author of an assessment chapter bringing those quantities into one quantitative framework.[ref]
The Earth's Energy Budget, Climate Feedbacks, and Climate Sensitivity by Piers Forster and others. Chapter 7: authorship and chapter scope
The distinctions matter physically: a forcing perturbs the energy budget, while feedback describes how the radiative response changes as the climate state changes. The inferred sensitivity also depends on the response timescale and on how those quantities are defined and estimated.