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Funding for this program reportedly "came to its planned and natural end"<ref>Email from Bob Carter to ahaynes, 2011-10-16</ref> around 2002.
===Outreach to journalists, knocking climate change===
Journalist Robyn Williams wrote that with the end of the drilling program, "Carter now had time on his hands"; and that
:"...many of us began to receive helpful items from Carter, clearly meant for publication, most knocking the orthodoxy, the bleak line on global warming. The first, a scripted talk, I duly put to air. Then a similar piece turned up in The Australian newspaper; then he was on Counterpoint, ABC Radio National, twice, all with the same position.
:"This was becoming not so much the availability of a helpful boffin, more pressing a line.... I...discovered that Professor Bob Carter, geologist from Townsville, was a vocal member of the [[Institute for Public Affairs]] (IPA)."<ref>{{cite web
|publisher=newmatilda.com
|title=Fair Weather Friends?
