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====Claims====
Carter's climate reasoning is selective and raises questions:
:"Carter goes to some length to claim that the surface temperature record (according to institutions like NASA GISS) is unreliable. In fact he implies that it’s downright useless. Yet he also states that the satellite record is reliable...[But] if the satellite record is so reliable but the surface record is so useless, why do they agree so closely?"<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Open Mind|title=Bob Carter Does his Business|url=https://tamino.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/bob-carter-does-his-business/#more-3954|accessdate=2011-08-08|author=Tamino|date=2011-07-13|quote=Carter goes to some length to claim that the surface temperature record (according to institutions like NASA GISS) is unreliable. In fact he implies that it’s downright useless. Yet he also states that the satellite record is reliable (and he uses the version from UAH). Which makes me wonder — if the satellite record is so reliable but the surface record is so useless, why do they agree so closely?}}</ref>
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>
===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|publisher=newmatilda.com|title=Fair Weather Friends?|url=http://newmatilda.com/node/1585?ArticleID=1585&HomepageID=142|accessdate=2011-08-08|author=Robyn Williams|date=2006-05-24|quote=We talked about Bob’s part in the deep-ocean drilling scheme carried out by ship, in various parts of the world. The cores produced are analysed chemically and offer time capsules going back centuries and histories of past climate change. He thought the project to be valuable. I agreed, for what that’s worth, and the interview duly went to air.Australia then withdrew from the project and Bob’s involvement went on hold.}}</ref>
===Other===
In 2005, Carter was appointed by the Australian Minister for Environment, [[Ian Campbell]], as a judge for the [[Australian Government Peter Hunt Eureka Prize for Environmental Journalism]].<ref>http://www.smh.com.au/news/Opinion/Greenery-is-shrouding-debate/2005/03/18/1111086009302.html</ref>He is also an advisor to the Campaign to Repeal the Climate Change Act ( repealtheact.org.uk )<ref>"[http://www.repealtheact.org.uk/about]"</ref>
==Articles and resources==
* Bob Carter, [http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24934655-7583,00.html "Facts debunk global warming alarmism"], ''The Australian'', January 20, 2009.
* Bob Carter, [http://www.heartland.org/bin/media/newyork09/keynotes/031009LunchCarter.flv "The Problem is NATURAL Climate Change, Stupid!"], Presentation to the Heartland Institute's [[International Conference on Climate Change (2009)]], March 10, 2009. (Video)
* Professor Robert Carter Climate: The Counter Consensus Published by [[Stacey International]]<ref>"[http://www.stacey-international.co.uk/v1/site/product_rpt.asp?Catid=331&catname=Professor Robert Carter Climate: The Counter Consensus Published by [[Stacey International]]]"</ref>
====Interviews with Carter====
