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{{#badges: Climate change|stub}}'''Robert (Bob) Carter''' is an Australian marine geologist and a paid [[AGW denier]] 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>; he is also on the academic advisory council of the [[Global Warming Policy Foundation]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thegwpf.org/who-we-are/academic-advisory-council.html |title=Academic Advisory Council |publisher=www.thegwpf.org |accessdate=2011-12-16 }}</ref> Carter is on the payroll of the [[Heartland Institute]], which itself is funded by polluting industries.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.watoday.com.au/environment/climate-change/scientist-denies-he-is-mouthpiece-of-us-climatesceptic-think-tank-20120215-1t6yi.html |title=Scientist denies he is mouthpiece of US climate-sceptic think tank |first=Ben |last=Cubby |work=watoday.com.au |year=2012 [last update] |accessdate=February 15, 2012}}</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>
