Bob Carter
Robert Merlin “Bob” Carter is a palaeontologist, stratigrapher, marine geologist and adjunct professorial research fellow in earth sciences at James Cook University, Queensland. Retired- now works as science advisor for Heartland Institute to cast doubt on AGW.
Carter is critical of the IPCC and believes “alarmist” statements about dangerous[12] human-caused global warming are unjustified.[13] In 2005, he argued against climate change being “man-made” by asserting that the global average temperature did not increase between 1998 and 2005, while the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increased.[14] In 2007, Carter participated in an expert panel discussion after the airing of The Great Global Warming Swindle documentary on ABC.[15][16]
His position on global warming has been criticized by other scientists such as David Karoly,[17] James Renwick[18] and Ove Hoegh-Guldberg.[19]
Carter has published primary research in the related field of palaeoclimatology, investigating New Zealand’s climate extending back to 3.9 Ma.[20][20][21] He has also published several critiques of anthropogenic global warming in economics journals.[12][22] In 2009, he co-authored a paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research claiming the El Niño-Southern Oscillation can account for most of the global temperature variation of the last fifty years.[23] A comment on this paper was published by nine other scientists in the same journal.[24] Carter with co-authors John Mclean and Chris de Freitas submitted a response to this comment but claimed they were censored.[25][26]
He is a contributor and reviewer of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) 2009 report, Climate Change Reconsidered and lead author of the 2011 interim report.[27][28]
In 2012, documents stolen from The Heartland Institute revealed that Carter was paid a monthly fee of $1,667 (USD), “as part of a program to pay ‘high-profile individuals who regularly and publicly counter the alarmist [anthropogenic global warming] message’.”[29] While Carter did not deny that the payments took place, he would not disclose what the payments were for.[29] Carter “emphatically denies” any suggestion that his scientific opinion on climate change can be bought or swayed by funding.[30] Other journalists have argued that Carter’s fee of $19,080 a year is insignificant compared to the billions of dollars those who support climate alarm receive.[31][32]
Carter has appeared as a witness in front of the Parliament of Australia,[33] and testified before the United States Senate[34] on the issue of climate change. From his Wikipedia entry
Bob (at 5.00 min) earning his Heartland salary.
Bob Ward takes Bob Carter to task over climate in the Guardian 2010
Bob Carter waiting for the next ice-age- 2007
For the last three years, satellite-measured average global temperature has been declining. Given the occurrence also of record low winter temperatures and massive snowfalls across both hemispheres this year, IPCC members have now entered panic mode, the whites of their eyes being clearly visible as they seek to defend their now unsustainable hypothesis of dangerous, human-caused global warming.
Bob Carter waiting for the next ice-age – any day now – since 2009
Nonetheless, by coincidence, growing recognition of a threat of climatic cooling is correct, because since the turn of the 21st century all real world, long-term climate indicators have turned downwards. Global atmospheric temperature reached a peak in 1998, has not warmed since 1995 and, has been cooling since 2002. Some people, still under the thrall of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change’s disproved projections of warming, seem surprised by this cooling trend, even to the point of denying it.
ending the piece with-
Perhaps a reassessment will finally occur when two-metre thick ice develops again on Father Thames at London Bridge, or when cooling causes massive crop failure in the world’s granary belts.
Bob Carter is often critical of computer predictions of the IPCC being wrong- according to Bob his prediction of a coming little ice age will show who’s right. Time will tell.
the Climate Denier List 
September 27, 2013 at 3:08 pm
Would the climate still change if all humans died tomorrow?
NOTE- yes: human induced CC caused by CO2 will cause the climate to increase for another 40 years or so and the temporary cooling effect of pollution would vanish in a few years.
January 26, 2016 at 11:00 am
You lose credibility by mentioning Bob Ward. Don’t you know he is the buffoon attack dog of Jeremy Grantham the hedge funder with carbon trading interests. So no bias then.
February 13, 2019 at 10:58 pm
Whoever you are you certainly nailed Bob Carter secretly earning $416.75/week. No wonder he was able to retire!
Any idea how much an airfare is from North Queensland to wherever the Heartland HQ is. Probably a bit more than $400?
If he used his brain he could become an alarmist and Uncle Al
would have sent out his private jet and put him up in his solar panel less Nashville pad where he keeps the last 2 Polar Bears on the planet that have survived the terrible heat of Arctic Canada.
By the way he never predicted an Ice Age he flipped 2 coins on a paddle (we call it two up) Heads warming, Tails Cooling and Odds no change. He is pretty clear despite the Russian cooling trend predicted you can’t predict the climate – guessing is as good as all the failed computer models.
Keep up the good work – don’t let anyone know how dodgy Micky Mann and his Hockey Stick was or how corrupt land temps are and don’t ever show the temp record from 1958 -2018 from the radiosonde balloons.
We don’t know much about climate downunder as we are one of the dumbest populations on the planet if you use our politicians as a guide (maybe 2nd behind the USA) but pretty dumb!
One thing we are good at is spotting a mug from a long way off.
That would be you (a mug is a fool, clown, dickhead, halfwit, dumb ass, nitwit, imbecile and also prone to being a moronic loudmouth)
No offense intended.
Kind Regards,
John