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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 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]].
Carter's own website (see image below) claimed, as recently as 2012, that he received no funding from "special interest organisations", but this was shown to be untrue with the release of private [[Heartland Institute]] documents in February 2012, which showed Carter was funded by this one front group alone to the tune of approximately $20,000 annually. Carter brushed off the revelation with the statement that being truthful about one's funding is ""a very quaint and old fashioned practice".<ref name="shill"/>
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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>
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