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 Carter is Chief Science Advisor to the [[International Climate Science Coalition]]<ref name=rmcbio/>, funded in part by the [[Heartland Institute]]<ref>Heartland's 2007(?) IRS Form 990, and indications of likely continued funding in later years (name of org is omitted, but region is same)</ref>, which is funded by the industries involved in producing greenhouse gases. Carter is also an advisor on a number of other right wing and denialist "think-tanks" and groupsL groups the [[Institute for Public Affairs]] (Aus), The [[Galileo Movement]] (Aus), the [[Science and Public Policy Institute]] (US), the [[International Climate Science Coalition]] (US/Canada), the [[Australian Climate Science Coalition]], the [[Global Warming Policy Foundation]] (UK) and [[Repeal the Act]] (UK).<ref name="shill"/> He was a founding advisor to the New Zealand [[Climate Science Coalition]]. Carter is a founding member of the [[Australian Environment Foundation]], a [[front group]] set up by the [[Institute of Public Affairs]].

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]].

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===Journalist Robyn Williams wrote that with the end of the drilling program,:"...many 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.

:===Outreach to journalists, denying global warming===Journalist Robyn Williams wrote that with the end of the drilling program "...many 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