Robert M. Carter

Robert M. "Bob" Carter is an adjunct research professor of geology specialising in palaeontology, stratigraphy, and marine geology in the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University, Queensland,[1] and the University of Adelaide, South Australia.[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] He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.[5]

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Career

Carter has published scientific papers on taxonomic paleontology, the growth and form of the molluscan shell, New Zealand and Pacific geology, sea level and paleoclimatology, New Zealand maritime glaciation,[6] Quaternary geology, stratigraphic classification, sequence stratigraphy, sedimentology,and the Great Barrier Reef.[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 was one of the founding members[8] of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, and a member[9] of the industry-funded[10] Institute of Public Affairs which also founded the Australian Environment Foundation. He is also a science adviser to the Science and Public Policy Institute.[11]

Global warming

Carter has appeared in many media pieces on global warming, including the public debate after the airing of The Great Global Warming Swindle documentary on ABC.[12] Carter has published newspaper articles[13][14] which conflict with the mainstream scientific opinion on climate change.[15] [16] His strong advocacy of anti-global warming positions have attracted harsh criticism from other environment scientists. [17][18] A Sydney Morning Herald reporter wrote that Carter "appears to have little standing in the Australian climate science community."[19]

Carter has published several critiques of anthropogenic global warming in economics journals.[20][21] Carter is a Contributor/Reviewer of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) 2009 report Climate Change Reconsidered.[22]

Carter has published primary research in the related field of palaeoclimatology, investigating New Zealand's climate extending back to 3.9 Ma.[6][23][24] Carter is a staff member at the Institute of Public Affairs.[25]

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References

  1. ^ "JCU Adjunct Staff". http://www.jcu.edu.au/ees/staff/adjunct/JCUDEV_014954.html. Retrieved 20 November 2008. 
  2. ^ "Research Professor". http://members.iinet.net.au/~glrmc/. Retrieved 13 July 2010. 
  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. ^ "Honorary Fellows". The Royal Society of New Zealand. 1977. http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/Site/About/Governance/yearbooks/year00/honfellows.aspx. Retrieved 13 December 2008. 
  6. ^ a b Carter, R.M.; Gammon, P. (2004). "New Zealand maritime glaciation: millennial-scale southern climate change since 3.9 Ma.". Science 304 (5677): 1659–62. doi:10.1126/science.1093726. PMID 15192226. http://members.iinet.net.au/~glrmc/Carter&Gammon-Science-04.pdf. 
  7. ^ Carter, R.M. (2007). "Stratigraphy into the 21st Century". Stratigraphy 4: 187–193. 
  8. ^ "New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, members". Sourcewatch. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=New_Zealand_Climate_Science_Coalition. Retrieved 3 January 2011. 
  9. ^ "IPA, People and Associates". Institute of Public Affairs. http://www.ipa.org.au/people. Retrieved 3 January 2011. 
  10. ^ "Institute of Public Affairs". Sourcewatch. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_of_Public_Affairs. Retrieved 3 January 2011. 
  11. ^ "SPPI, Personnel". Science and Public Policy Institute. http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/personnel.html. Retrieved 3 January 2011. 
  12. ^ David Karoly, Bob Carter, Robyn Williams, Michael Duffy, Greg Bourne, Ray Evans, Nikki Williams, Nick Rowley (12 July 2007). The Great Global Warming Swindle (Television). Australia: ABC Television. http://www.abc.net.au/tv/swindle/panel.htm. 
  13. ^ Solomon, Lawrence (17 July 2007). "What global warming, Australian skeptic asks". National Post. http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=d71dfa89-384c-4ede-a759-55fb7ffdcfc2. Retrieved 24 August 2008. 
  14. ^ Carter, Robert M. (4 September 2006). "There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998". The Daily Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/04/09/do0907.xml. Retrieved 24 August 2008. 
  15. ^ "IPCC Publications and Data". IPCC. http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_and_data_reports.shtml. 
  16. ^ Doran, Peter; Zimmerman, Maggie (2009). "Examining the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change". Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 90 (3). http://tigger.uic.edu/~pdoran/012009_Doran_final.pdf. 
  17. ^ http://theconversation.edu.au/bob-carters-climate-counter-consensus-is-an-alternate-reality-1553
  18. ^ http://theconversation.edu.au/whos-your-expert-the-difference-between-peer-review-and-rhetoric-1550
  19. ^ Wendy Frew (15 March 2007). "Minchin denies climate change man-made". Sydney Morning Herald. http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/minchin-denies-climate-change-manmade/2007/03/14/1173722560417.html. 
  20. ^ Carter, Robert M. (September 2008). "Knock, Knock: Where is the Evidence for Dangerous Human-Caused Global Warming?". Economic Analysis & Policy 38 (2). http://www.eap-journal.com/download.php?file=671. 
  21. ^ Carter, R.M., De Freitas, C.R., Goklany, I.M., Holland, D. & Lindzen, R.S. (2007). "Climate change. Climate science and the Stern Review.". World Economics 8: 161–182. http://members.iinet.net.au/~glrmc/WE%20Riposte%20to%20Critique.pdf. 
  22. ^ Singer, Fred S. & Idso, Craig Climate Change Reconsidered, Report of the Nongovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2 June 2009, 880 pp, The Heartland Institute, ISBN 978-1-934791-28-8
  23. ^ 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. doi:10.1080/03014223.2005.9517776. 
  24. ^ 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 (11): 1005–1008. doi:10.1130/G20783.1. 
  25. ^ http://www.ipa.org.au/people