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{{#badges: Climate change|stub}}'''Robert (Bob) Carter''' is an Australian marine geologist and [[Global warming controversy|climate contrarian]] who is an adjunct Research Fellow at the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University" in Australia<ref name=rmcbio>http://myprofile.cos.com/glrmc</ref>.
According to the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' in 2007, Carter was "on the research committee at the [[Institute of Public Affairs]], a think tank that has received funding from oil and tobacco companies, and whose directors sit on the boards of companies in the fossil fuel sector" and believed "the role of peer review in scientific literature was overstressed."<ref>http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/minchin-denies-climate-change-manmade/2007/03/14/1173722560417.html</ref>
===Controversies===
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 cessation; ended in 2002===
Some of 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 reportedly "came to its planned and natural end"<ref>Email from Bob Carter to ahaynes, 2011-10-16</ref> around 2002.===Outreach to journalists, knocking climate change===Robyn Williams wrote in 2006 that with the end of the drilling program, "Carter now had time on his hands"; and that:"It is from about that time...that many [Australian journalists] of us began to receive helpful items from Carter, clearly meant for publication, most knocking the orthodoxy, the bleak line on global warming. The first, a scripted talk, I duly put to air. Then a similar piece turned up in The Australian newspaper; then he was on Counterpoint, ABC Radio National, twice, all with the same position. This was becoming not so much the availability of a helpful boffin, more pressing a line.... I...discovered that Professor Bob Carter, geologist from Townsville, was a vocal member of the [[Institute for Public Affairs]] (IPA)."<ref>{{cite web
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