FACTSHEET: Bob Carter
DETAILS
Professor, Marine Geophysical Laboratory, James Cook University
former Director, Australian Secretariat for the Ocean Drilling Program
Contributing Writer, Tech Central Station
founding member, Australian Environment Foundation
Founding member scientist, New Zealand Climate Science Coalition.
KEY QUOTES
5 May, 2004
"The first thing to be clear about is that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant."
Source: Tech Central Station Article - Carter
5 May, 2004
"contrary to strong public belief, the effects of increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are generally beneficial. Enhanced plant growth has many obvious benefits, amongst them increased natural vegetation growth in general, and increased agricultural production in particular. And to maintain or slightly increase planetary temperature is also very much a global good if -- as Ruddiman and other scientists assert -- the human production of greenhouse gases is helping to hold our planetary environment in its historic, benignly warm, interglacial mode."
Source: Tech Central Station Article - Carter
4 September, 2006
"There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998. ...
That industrial carbon dioxide is not the primary cause of earth's recent decadal-scale temperature changes doesn't seem at all odd to many thousands of independent scientists. They have long appreciated - ever since the early 1990s, when the global warming bandwagon first started to roll behind the gravy train of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - that such short-term climate fluctuations are chiefly of natural origin."
Source: The Telegraph (UK) 2006
5 May, 2004
"The first thing to be clear about is that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant."
Source: Tech Central Station Article - Carter
5 May, 2004
"contrary to strong public belief, the effects of increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are generally beneficial. Enhanced plant growth has many obvious benefits, amongst them increased natural vegetation growth in general, and increased agricultural production in particular. And to maintain or slightly increase planetary temperature is also very much a global good if -- as Ruddiman and other scientists assert -- the human production of greenhouse gases is helping to hold our planetary environment in its historic, benignly warm, interglacial mode."
Source: Tech Central Station Article - Carter
QUOTES
11 April, 2005
"Such persons, and myself as you introduced me, are often termed 'sceptics' and that's meant to be a term of denigration, but I'm a scientist - it's my job to be a sceptic, Michael, and those who are not sceptical towards human-caused global warming or, indeed, towards any other fashionable environmental concern, are acting in unscientific manner - religious, even."
Source: ABC (Australian radio) (2005)
3 November, 2006
"...the empirical data stressed by climate rationalists will ultimately prevail over the predictions of the unvalidated computer models. Perhaps then we will be able to attend to the real climate policy problem, which is to prepare response plans for extreme weather events, and for climate warmings as well as coolings, in the same way we prepare to cope with all other natural hazards."
Source: The Australian - Carter opinion(2006)
KEY EVENTS
New York International Conference on Climate Change 2008, March 2-4
http://www.heartland.org/NewYork08/proceedings.cfm
The relationship of Bob Carter to the event: speaker
ORGANIZATIONS
Heartland Institute
Source: Heartland 2010 Climate Conference Speaker List
Tech Central Science Foundation or Tech Central Station
Source: Tech Central Station Article - Carter
Heartland Institute
Source: Real Climate blog on Heartland conference
New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
Source: NZ Climate Science Coalition website
International Climate Science Coalition
Source: ICSC list of who's who
SOURCES
Tech Central Station Article - Carter
http://www.techcentralstation.com/050504A.html
Tech Central Station Article - Carter
http://www.techcentralstation.com/050504A.html
The Telegraph (UK) 2006
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/04/09/do0907.xml
ABC (Australian radio) (2005)
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/counterpoint/stories/s1339366.htm
The Australian - Carter opinion(2006)
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20690289-7583,00.html
NZ Climate Science Coalition website
List of founders, co-founders and advisors.
http://nzclimatescience.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=12&Itemid=45
Real Climate blog on Heartland conference
"What if you held a conference and no (real) scientists came?". Real Climate blog on the invite to the Heartland 08 conference, confirming what speakers were paid ($1000 each) and that their travel and accommdation would also be paid by Heartland.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/01/what-if-you-held-a-conference-and-no-real-scientists-came/
ICSC list of who's who
http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=28
Heartland 2010 Climate Conference Speaker List
More than 70 speakers will make keynote presentations or participate in panel discussions at the Fourth International Conference on Climate Change, May 16-18, 2010 in Chicago.
http://www.heartland.org/events/2010Chicago/speakers.html