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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 has published more than 100 scientific papers on taxonomic palaeontology, 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. In addition to scientific publications, Carter has contributed letters and opinion pieces on science topics to a variety of newspapers, magazines and web magazines. His current research focuses on stratigraphy, based on field studies of Cenozoic sediments from the Southwest Pacific.

Carter is a global warming sceptic and has consistently opposed the consensus view on global warming. Carter has addressed many academic, professional, and business organisations, some of which are listed on his website. His titles include "Global Warming: Cool Science or Hot Air", and "The Great Barrier Reef is Doing Just Fine, Thank You." While Carter offers a critique of the mainstream view on climate change, he has no published peer reviewed papers providing evidence to discredit the climate change consensus. A March 2007 article by Sydney Morning Herald environmental reporter Wendy Frew said that "Professor Carter, whose background is in marine geology, appears to have little, if any, standing in the Australian climate science community."

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."

Carter is a member of the conservative think tank the Institute of Public Affairs , 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.

Carter featured in the debate following the Australian showing of The Great Global Warming Swindle documentary.

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Selected scientific publications

  • CARTER, R.M. 2007 Stratigraphy into the 21st Century. Stratigraphy 4, 187-193.
  • CARTER, R.M. 2005 The status of local "stages" in the New Zealand Plio-Pleistocene. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics 48, 623-639.
  • CARTER, R.M. 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.
  • 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.
  • CARTER, R.M.; GAMMON, P. 2004 New Zealand maritime glaciation: millennial-scale southern climate change since 3.9 Ma. Science, 304, 1659-1662.
  • CARTER, R.M., GAMMON, P.R.; MILLWOOD, L. 2004 Glacial-interglacial (MIS 1-10) migrations of the Subtropical Front (STC) across ODP Site 1119, Canterbury Bight, Southwest Pacific Ocean. Marine Geology 205, 29-58.
  • CARTER, R.M., ABBOTT, S.T., GRAHAM, I.J.; NAISH, T.R. 2002 The middle Pleistocene Merced-2 and -3 Sequences from Ocean Beach, San Francisco. Sedimentary Geology 153, 23-51.

Articles by Carter

Videos featuring Carter

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.

Articles about Carter

References

  1. Ocean Drilling Program
  2. 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)
  3. Solomon, Lawrence (2007-07-17). "What global warming, Australian skeptic asks". National Post. Retrieved 2008-08-24.
  4. Carter, Robert M. (2006-09-04). "There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2008-08-24.
  5. Wendy Frew, , Sydney Morning Herald, March 15, 2007
  6. "Biography of Professor Robert (Bob) M. Carter". Robert M. Carter. Retrieved 2008-08-25.
  7. David Karoly, Bob Carter, Robyn Williams, Michael Duffy, Greg Bourne, Ray Evans, Nikki Williams, Nick Rowley. The Great Global Warming Swindle (Television). Australia: ABC Television. {{cite AV media}}: Unknown parameter |year2= ignored (help)
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