Original sentence: Carter was one of the founding members of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, and a member of the industry-funded Institute of Public Affairs which also founded the Australian Environment Foundation.He is also a science adviser to the Science and Public Policy Institute
Edited sentence: , a US-based organisation with links to the Republican party.Carter was one of the founding members of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, and a member of the conservative industry-funded Institute of Public Affairs which also founded the Australian Environment Foundation, a front group for the Institute's environmental opinions.He is also a science adviser to the Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI).Readers should note that the  NIPCC is in opposition to the UN sanctioned IPCC over the causes of climate change, and was set up by Fred Singer, the same scientist who set up the conservative Republican linked SPPI