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 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 prominent global warming sceptic and has consistently opposed the consensus view on global warming [1]. 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." [2]

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." 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 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 [4], 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 [5].

Contents 1 See also 2 External links 2.1 Selected scientific publications 2.2 Articles by Carter 2.3 Videos featuring Carter 2.4 Interviews with Carter 2.5 Articles about Carter

[edit] See also

• List of scientists opposing global warming consensus

[edit] External links

• Bob Carter's personal homepage

[edit] 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.

[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.
• Bob Carter, "High price for load of hot air", The Courier Mail, June 18, 2007.

[edit] Videos featuring Carter

• 2007 Australian lecture on relationship of CO2 to global warming

[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

• 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.
• "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.