Robert M. Carter
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Robert M. "Bob" Carter is a research professor in the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University, Australia. He is a geologist and marine geologist with special interests in stratigraphy and, more recently, climate change. Carter is a former Director of Australia's Secretariat for the Ocean Drilling Program.
Carter is a prominent global warming sceptic and has consistently opposed the consensus view on global warming [1]. A March 2007 article in the Sydney Morning Herald noted that "Professor Carter, whose background is in marine geology, appears to have little, if any, standing in the Australian climate science community." [2]
Carter has published scientific papers on the growth and form of the molluscan shell, New Zealand and Pacific geology,New Zealand Maritime Glaciation, Quaternary geology, stratigraphic classification, sequence stratigraphy, sedimentology, the Great Barrier Reef, and taxonomic palaeontology. In addition to scientific publications, Bob Carter has contributed letters and opinion pieces on science topics to a variety of newspapers, magazines and web magazines.
Carter has addressed many academic, professional, and business organisations, some of which are listed on his website. His titles include "Global Warming: Neat Science or Hot Air", and "The Great Barrier Reef is Doing Just Fine, Thank You." He offers also to "prepare modified or alternative presentations, including shorter talks, which are tailored to particular occasions or to the interests of particular audience groups" (from his website, July 2006).[3]
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 [sic] from special interest organisations such as environmental groups, energy companies or government departments."; however, he has written articles on global warming for Tech Central Station, which received 63% of its income in 2003 from ExxonMobil.[4]
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[edit] Articles by Carter
- Bob Carter, "The Great Barrier Reef is doing just fine: a precautionary tale", On Line Opinion, March 12, 2002. (First published in the Courier-Mail on 27 November 2002.)
- Bob Carter,"Modern 'global warming' may turn out to be just a lot of hot air", On Line Opinion, November 7, 2003. (First published in the Australian Financial Review on 3 November 2003.)
- Bob Carter, "Cool rationality shatters greenhouse hype", On Line Opinion, August 4, 2005. (Originally published in the Australian Financial Review July 14, 2005).
- Bob Carter, "Climate Change is Not About the Weather", Perspective, ABC Radio National, August 6, 2004.
- Bob Carter, "Global Warming Hysteria and the Deadly Disease of Hansenism", Melbourne Rotary Club address, June 15, 2005.
- Bob Carter, "All the signs of full-blown Mother Earthism", Sydney Morning Herald, September 29 2005.
- Bob Carter, "There IS a problem with global warming - it stopped in 1998", Sunday Telegraph (UK), April 9 2006.
- Bob Carter, "An inconvenient truth: climate change is indeed a moral issue", On Line Opinion, Sept. 20, 2006.
- Bob Carter, "British report the last hurrah of warmaholics: The Stern warning could join Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb and the Club of Rome's Limits to Growth in the pantheon of big banana scares that proved to be unfounded", The Australian, November 3, 2006.
[edit] Interviews with Carter
- Michael Duffy, "Climate Change Response: Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville, answers your queries arising from our Climate Change show of Monday 4 April.", Counterpoint, ABC Radio National, April 11, 2005.
- Robyn Williams, "Bob Carter", Science Show, ABC Radio National, September 1, 2005.
- Panel Discussion chaired by Professor Anders Flodstrom, "Global Warming - Scientific Controversies in Climate Variability:" (click on Part 1 or Part 2), KTH University, Stockholm, September 11-12, 2006.
[edit] Articles about Carter
- Google Search: "An embarrassment to Australian science".
- Tim Lambert, et al, "Bob Carter", Deltoid. (This is an archive of various posts on Bob Carter's statements).
- Bob Carter, A Rundown of the Skeptics & Deniers Logical Science.
- Anna Saleh, "Glacial mud reveals earth's history", ABC News in Science (Australia), June 11, 2004.
- Deborah Smith, "Climate of opinion", Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), June 12, 2004.
- Ian Frazer, "Cool response to a hot topic", Townsville Bulletin, July 7, 2004.
- John Quiggin, Duffy And Carter on Counterpoint, April 18, 2005.
- "Ice cores show warming 'natural'", The Australian, January 7, 2006.
- Robyn Williams, "Fair weather friend?", New Matilda, May 24, 2006.
- Wendy Frew , "Minchin denies climate change man-made", Sydney Morning Herald, March 15, 2007.
