It’s all about the Cash

The global warming campaign is not about climate, or pollution, or energy conservation – it is overwhelmingly about CASH

Viv Forbes

Letters to the Editor | Comments | November 21, 2009

Cash income for government wastrels who have trouble balancing their books; cash profits for bankers, traders and speculators in the permit trading game; cash receipts for carbon credit harvesters;

cash subsidies for those manufacturing and installing alternative energy playthings; cash foreign aid in “climate compensation” for failed (“less developed”) states; cash windfalls for countries like Russia from selling their surplus emissions permits; cash investments from refugee industries seeking carbon tax asylum in places like China and India; cash research grants for sycophant academics; and cash welfare handouts for “lower income supplicants”. If you want to understand why something with such fragile scientific support gets such massive media and political support, just ask: “Cui bono?” – who benefits?

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Viv Forbes——Bio and Archives

Viv Forbes, Chairman, The Carbon Sense Coalition, has spent his life working in exploration, mining, farming, infrastructure, financial analysis and political commentary. He has worked for government departments, private companies and now works as a private contractor and farmer.

Viv has also been a guest writer for the Asian Wall Street Journal, Business Queensland and mining newspapers. He was awarded the “Australian Adam Smith Award for Services to the Free Society” in 1988, and has written widely on political, technical and economic subjects.