{{#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 , SMH said, that "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>