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Robert M. "Bob" Carter is an adjunct research professor in the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University, Queensland[1] and the University of Adelaide South Australia, Australia.[citation needed] He is a geologist specializing in palaeontology, stratigraphy, marine geology, and environmental science.[2] Carter is a former Director of Australia's Secretariat for the Ocean Drilling Program and a Co-Chief Scientist for drilling leg 181.[3][4]

Career

Carter has published scientific papers on taxonomic palaeontology, the growth and form of the molluscan shell, New Zealand and Pacific geology, sea level and climate change, New Zealand maritime glaciation,[5] quaternary geology, stratigraphic classification, sequence stratigraphy, sedimentology,and the Great Barrier Reef.[6] He has been made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.[7]

Carter is active in the media, volunteering letters and opinion pieces on science topics to a variety of newspapers, magazines and web magazines. Carter is a member of the conservative think tank the Institute of Public Affairs,[8] was one of the founding members of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, and a founding member of the Australian Environment Foundation, an organisation set up by the Institute of Public Affairs. He is also a science adviser to the Science and Public Policy Institute.

Global Warming

Carter is noted for having appeared in numerous media pieces on global warming, including the Australian public debate following the airing of The Great Global Warming Swindle documentary on ABC.[9] He has consistently challenged the consensus view on global warming[10][11] and has addressed many academic, professional, and business organisations in this capacity.

Carter has published several critiques of anthropogenic global warming in economics journals, detailing scientific evidence he believes counters common presentations of anthropogenic warming.[12][13] Carter is a Contributor/Reviewer of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) 2009 report Climate Change Reconsidered[14]

According to an article in the Sydney Morning Herald, Carter appears to have little standing in the Australian climate science community.[15] However, he has published primary research in the related field of palaeoclimatology, investigating New Zealand's climate extending back to 3.9 Ma.[16][17][18]

Carter's website states that his research "has been supported by grants from competitive public research agencies, especially the Australian Research Council (ARC)", and that he "receives no research funding from special interest organisations such as environmental groups, energy companies or government departments."[19] However, he is on the research committee of the Institute of Public Affairs, an Australian think tank whose views include climate skepticism and whose funding includes oil and tobacco companies.[15]

See also

Carter Videos

Interviews and Articles

References

  1. ^ "JCU Adjunct Staff". Retrieved 2008-11-20.
  2. ^ Biography of Robert M. Carter
  3. ^ ODP Australia - 2001 Australia and Scientific Ocean Drilling
  4. ^ ODP Leg 181. Southwest Pacific Gateway. Co-Chief Scientists: Robert Carter and Nick McCave, The Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)- Australian Leg
  5. ^ Carter, Robert M. (2004-06-11). "New Zealand Maritime Glaciation: Millennial-Scale Southern Climate Change Since 3.9 Ma" (PDF). Science Magazine. 304: pp 1659–1662. Retrieved 2008-08-24. {{cite journal}}: |pages= has extra text (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ Carter, R.M. (2007). "Stratigraphy into the 21st Century". Stratigraphy. 4: 187–193.
  7. ^ "Honorary Fellows". The Royal Society of New Zealand. 1977. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
  8. ^ Robyn Williams (24 May 2006). "Fair Weather Friends?". Retrieved 24 January 2009.
  9. ^ David Karoly, Bob Carter, Robyn Williams, Michael Duffy, Greg Bourne, Ray Evans, Nikki Williams, Nick Rowley (2007-07-12). The Great Global Warming Swindle (Television). Australia: ABC Television.
  10. ^ Solomon, Lawrence (2007-07-17). "What global warming, Australian skeptic asks". National Post. Retrieved 2008-08-24.
  11. ^ Carter, Robert M. (2006-09-04). "There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2008-08-24.
  12. ^ Carter, Robert M. (September 2008). "Knock, Knock: Where is the Evidence for Dangerous Human-Caused Global Warming?". Economic Analysis & Policy. Vol. 38, No. 2.
  13. ^ CARTER, R.M., DE FREITAS, C.R., GOKLANY, I.M., HOLLAND, D. & LINDZEN, R.S. (2007). "Climate change. Climate science and the Stern Review" (PDF). World Economics. Vol. 8, 161-182.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ Singer, Fred S. & Idso, Craig Climate Change Reconsidered, Report of the Nongovernmental Panel on Climate Change, June 2, 2009, 880 pp, The Heartland Institute, ISBN-13 – 978-1-934791-28-8
  15. ^ a b Wendy Frew, "Minchin denies climate change man-made", Sydney Morning Herald, March 15, 2007
  16. ^ CARTER, R.M. year = 2005. "A New Zealand climatic template back to c. 3.9 Ma: ODP Site 1119, Canterbury Bight, south-west Pacific Ocean, and its relationship to onland successions". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 35: 9–42. {{cite journal}}: Missing pipe in: |first= (help); line feed character in |first= at position 6 (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  17. ^ Carter, R.M.; Fulthorpe, C.S.; Lu, H. (2004). "Canterbury Drifts at Ocean Drilling Program Site 1119, New Zealand: climatic modulation of southwest Pacific intermediate water flows since 3.9 Ma". Geology. 32: 1005–1008. doi:10.1130/G20783.1.
  18. ^ CARTER, R.M.; GAMMON, P. (2004). "New Zealand maritime glaciation: millennial-scale southern climate change since 3.9 Ma". Science. 304: 1659–1662. doi:10.1126/science.1093726.
  19. ^ "Biography of Professor Robert (Bob) M. Carter". Robert M. Carter. Retrieved 2008-08-25.
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