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{{#badges: Climate change|stub}}Professor '''Robert (Bob) Carter''', is so-called "an Australian marine geologist and [[Global warming controversy|climate change skepticcontrarian]]."

He is "a A researcher at the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University" in Australia.<refname=rmcbio>http://myprofile.cos.com/glrmc</ref> According to the ''Sydney Morning Herald'', Carter "Professor Carter, whose background is in marine geology, appears to have little, if any, standing in the Australian climate science community", according to the ''Sydney Morning Herald''."<ref>http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/minchin-denies-climate-change-manmade/2007/03/14/1173722560417.html</ref>

Carter was a speaker at is Chief Science Advisor to the [[International Conference on Climate Change (2009)Science Coalition]]<ref name=rmcbio/>, organized funded in part by the [[Heartland Institute]], which is funded by the industries involved in producing greenhouse gases. <ref>"[http://www.heartland.org/events/NewYork09/speakers.html Speakers]," Heartland Institute website, accessed January 2009.</ref> Carter is also listed as a speaker for the Heartland Institute's June 2009 [[Third International Conference on Climate Change]].<ref>Heartland Institute, [http://www.heartland.org/events/WashingtonDC09/speakers.html "Speakers"], Heartland Institute, accessed May 7, 2009.</ref> In March 2007(?) IRS Form 990, the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' reported that Carter asserted that the [[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]] had uncovered no evidence the warming and indications of the planet was caused by human activity. He said the role of peer review likely continued funding in scientific literature was overstressed, and whether or not a scientist had been funded by the fossil fuel industry was irrelevant to the validity later years (name of research. 'I don't think it org is the point whether or not you are paid by the coal or petroleum industryomitted,' said Professor Carter. 'I will address the evidence.'" <ref>http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/minchin-denies-climate-change-manmade/2007/03/14/1173722560417.htmlbut region is same)</ref> Carter has also asserted that "atmospheric CO2 is not a primary forcing agent for temperature change," and claimed that "any cumulative human signal which is so far undetectable at a global level and, if present, is buried deeply in the noise of natural variation". <ref>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17750944%255E30417,00.html/</ref> Carter is a member of the right-wing [[think tank]] the [[Institute of Public Affairs]]<ref>http://newmatilda.com/home/articledetailmagazine.asp?ArticleID=1585&HomepageID=142</ref>, and a founding member of the [[Australian Environment Foundation]], a [[front group]] set up funded by the [[Institute of Public Affairs]]industries involved in producing greenhouse gases.

====Speaking at Heartland Institute events====Carter was a speaker at the [[International Conference on Climate Change (2009)]], organized by the [[Heartland Institute]]<ref>"[http://www.heartland.org/events/NewYork09/speakers.html Speakers]," Heartland Institute website, accessed January 2009.</ref> Carter is also listed as a speaker for the Heartland Institute's June 2009 [[Third International Conference on Climate Change]].<ref>Heartland Institute, [http://www.heartland.org/events/WashingtonDC09/speakers.html "Speakers"], Heartland Institute, accessed May 7, 2009.</ref> ====Claims====Carter's climate reasoning is selective and raises questions::"Carter goes to some length to claim that the surface temperature record (according to institutions like NASA GISS) is unreliable. In fact he implies that it’s downright useless. Yet he also states that the satellite record is reliable...[But] if the satellite record is so reliable but the surface record is so useless, why do they agree so closely?"<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Open Mind|title=Bob Carter Does his Business|url=https://tamino.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/bob-carter-does-his-business/#more-3954|accessdate=2011-08-08|author=Tamino|date=2011-07-13|quote=Carter goes to some length to claim that the surface temperature record (according to institutions like NASA GISS) is unreliable. In fact he implies that it’s downright useless. Yet he also states that the satellite record is reliable (and he uses the version from UAH). Which makes me wonder — if the satellite record is so reliable but the surface record is so useless, why do they agree so closely?}}</ref> In March 2007, the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' reported that Carter asserted that the [[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]] had uncovered no evidence the warming of the planet was caused by human activity. He said the role of peer review in scientific literature was overstressed, and whether or not a scientist had been funded by the fossil fuel industry was irrelevant to the validity of research. 'I don't think it is the point whether or not you are paid by the coal or petroleum industry,' said Professor Carter. 'I will address the evidence.'" <ref>http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/minchin-denies-climate-change-manmade/2007/03/14/1173722560417.html</ref> Carter has also asserted that "atmospheric CO2 is not a primary forcing agent for temperature change," and claimed that "any cumulative human signal is so far undetectable at a global level and, if present, is buried deeply in the noise of natural variation". <ref>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17750944%255E30417,00.html/</ref> Carter is a member of the right-wing [[think tank]] the [[Institute of Public Affairs]]<ref>http://newmatilda.com/home/articledetailmagazine.asp?ArticleID=1585&HomepageID=142</ref>, and a founding member of the [[Australian Environment Foundation]], a [[front group]] set up by the [[Institute of Public Affairs]]. ===Other Select Climate Quotes===

Carter is a geologist who writes in the field of geology.<ref>http://members.iinet.net.au/~glrmc/new_page_4.htm research papers </ref>. ===Ocean Drilling Program, and funding cut===Some of his Carter's work has involved what is known as "paleoclimatic research," including participation in the [[Ocean Drilling Program]] Leg 181 try to create a benchmark of the 4 million year-long, mid-latitude climate record.<ref>http://members.iinet.net.au/~glrmc/Carter&Gammon-Science-04.pdf</ref> . Funding for this program was reportedly cut around 2002, and "It is from about that time...that many [Australian journalists] began to receive helpful items from Carter, clearly meant for publication, most knocking the orthodoxy, the bleak line on global warming."<ref>{{cite web|publisher=newmatilda.com|title=Fair Weather Friends?|url=http://newmatilda.com/node/1585?ArticleID=1585&HomepageID=142|accessdate=2011-08-08|author=Robyn Williams|date=2006-05-24|quote=We talked about Bob’s part in the deep-ocean drilling scheme carried out by ship, in various parts of the world. The cores produced are analysed chemically and offer time capsules going back centuries and histories of past climate change. He thought the project to be valuable. I agreed, for what that’s worth, and the interview duly went to air.Australia then withdrew from the project and Bob’s involvement went on hold. There were two consequences: the first, apparently, was that Carter now had time on his hands; the second, I inferred, was that he was not at all pleased with whichever authorities had cut off the funds.}}</ref>===Other===In 2005, Carter was appointed by the Australian Minister for Environment, [[Ian Campbell]], as a judge for the [[Australian Government Peter Hunt Eureka Prize for Environmental Journalism]].<ref>http://www.smh.com.au/news/Opinion/Greenery-is-shrouding-debate/2005/03/18/1111086009302.html</ref> ''The reasoning behind this appointment is unclear.''

* ClimateTim Lambert, The Counter Consensus published by et al, "[[Stacey International]http://timlambert.org/category/science/bobcarter/ Bob Carter]", ''Deltoid''. (This is an archive of various posts on Bob Carter's statements).<ref>"*[http://www.stacey-internationallogicalscience.co.ukcom/v1skeptics/site/product_rptbobcarter.asp?Catid=331html Bob Carter, A Rundown of the Skeptics &catname=Independent+MindsDeniers]"</ref>''Logical Science''.