Jennifer,

Thank you for posting this wonderful tribute to Bob Carter and excellent explanation of what he stood for.

Bob Carter did an enormous amount to help save us all from stupidity. He was one of four non-climate scientists who convinced Senator Steve Fielding (the only engineer in Australia’s Parliament at the time) that the climate scientists’ projections of catastrophic human caused global warming were not based on sound objective, analysis of the relevant evidence and were highly suspect. This was the beginnings of the undoing of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Environment Minister Penny Wong and the advocates for the ‘Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme’ and later Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s Carbon Tax.

Thank you Bob Carter for helping to bring some rational, objective analysis to the debate. Thank you for the long view you brought to the debate that only geologists can bring. Thank you for so much!

I'd also like to encourage those who didn't agree with Bob carter to be respectful. I'll copy below a comment I read on a web site yesterday:

"This is indeed a sad loss.

If I might make an observation here, when a senior politician from any Party passes away, there are tributes from both sides of the political fence. While alive, that politician was on one side, and the other side opposed everything he may have said or done, and yet when he dies, their praise for the ….. man he was is always forthcoming.

It would seem that in this case here, those who were on the opposite side to Professor Carter either do not know of his passing, (which I doubt) or are just not observing the niceties here.

Not a word form any of them, not even from those who were once on the same team as he was, those at JCU.

Their silence says more about them than it does about Professor Carter, who was always a gentleman."

A fitting tribute, Jennifer. Well said.

Perhaps some of the bed-wetting kidults who think we are all frying up commenting here could read some of Bob's published work or listen to him on video clips and learn about real climate science from a real climate scientist.

Unlikely, I know, but stranger things have happened.

I am extremely sorry that we have lost one of the few qualifed people in Australia who knew what he was talking about when it came to climate change. His contributions should never be forgotten. When, finally, the idiots are proven wrong, as they will be, that will be a fitting memorial to him - one which should be appropriately celebrated.

Professor Bob Carter made some useful contributions to geological studies of Australia and its surrounds. I particularly liked his linking with Astronomy and his work to discredit young earth creationist.
He actually took them to court at one stage.

@Captain col aka Runner calling people who dis agree with you bedwetters says a lot about you. Reading a couple of sentences into any of your posts confirms it.

I think it is always a sad time when we lose a scientist that was prepared to speak his mind in the public forum. Right or wrong, he contributed to the debate.

I am not surprised that many who disagreed with him have not commented, as this is pretty recent news to many. I have only learned of Prof. Bob Carters death today.

Also, why would anyone want to respond to those who would use his death as a chance to call their opponents names and further their own political agenda?

Good to see you have some nice words about Bob, Cobber, but not a sausage about his real struggle against the bedwetters in climate change. What are your views about Bob's contribution in that field? I think he was a giant.

What would be your views of the James Cook University where Bob was professor for 30 odd years, not having the decency to even note his passing? I think it's disgraceful. The JCU disowned Bob because of his science (he insisted he didn't have opinions) and shut him out. They even spelled it out.

Because his "views on climate change did not fit well within the School's own teaching and research activities" So much for James Cook University's commitment to genuine scholarly inquiry.

Those and their supporters are the bedwetters. Any comments?