Piers Forster

Piers Forster is a Professor of Physical Climate Change and Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate at the University of Leeds.[1] [2] A physicist by training, his research focuses on quantifying the different human causes of climate change and the way the Earth responds. He is best known for his work on radiative forcing, climate sensitivity, contrails and Climate engineering. He has contributed heavily to the writing of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, including acting as a Lead Author for both the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report[3] and IPCC Fifth Assessment Report.[4][5] and as co-author of the IPCC 2018 Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC.[6][7]

Piers Forster
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Reading (Ph.D, 1994)
AwardsAmerican Geophysical Union Fellow (2019)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Leeds
ThesisMeasuring and modelling UV radiation (1994)
Doctoral advisorKeith Shine

Career

Forster was educated at Imperial College, London where he gained a BSc in Physics in 1990. He was subsequently awarded a PhD in Meteorology by the University of Reading in 1994. After research posts at the Universities of Reading, Colorado and Melbourne he was appointed a Reader at the University of Leeds in 2005. He has been Professor of Physical Climate Change at Leeds since 2008.[8][9]

Forster was principal investigator of the Integrated Assessment of Geoengineering Proposals project.[10][11] He has doubts as to whether geoengineering could be deployed effectively.[12] Forster is also trustee of a UK rainforest-protection charity United Bank of Carbon.[13][14] He has a number of UK government and industry roles including being a member of the UK Committee on Climate Change.[15]

Awards

2011 Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award[16]

2019 American Geophysical Union Fellow[17]

References
  1. University of Leeds School of Earth and Environment
  2. University of Leeds
  3. https://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch2.html
  4. http://www.climatechange2013.org/contributors/summary-for-policymakers
  5. Brumfiel, Geoff (25 August 2011). "Cloud formation may be linked to cosmic rays". Scientific American. Retrieved 26 November 2011.
  6. Summary for Policymakers (PDF), Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), nd, retrieved October 8, 2018, "IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty
  7. Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC (Report). Incheon, Republic of Korea: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). October 7, 2018. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  8. University of Leeds, Professor Forster's home page
  9. United Bank of Carbon, Biography
  10. Carrington, Damian (26 November 2014). "Reflecting sunlight into space has terrifying consequences, say scientists". Guardian. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
  11. http://www.iagp.ac.uk
  12. Forster, Piers (2 February 2015). "Not enough time for geoengineering to work?". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
  13. http://www.unitedbankofcarbon.com/
  14. Wilson, Matthew (13 March 2015). "The tea room that planted 3M trees around the world to cosmic rays". Financial Times. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
  15. https://www.theccc.org.uk/2018/12/03/professor-piers-forster-joins-committee-on-climate-change/
  16. Royal Society Awards list
  17. American Geophysical Union Fellows list


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