Viv Forbes
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.
Most Recent Articles by Viv Forbes:
The Growing Menace of Trees
March 26, 2025
Now landowners are the suckers - if woody weeds reach a certain size, they become protected native plants. Bureaucratic spies now use satellite data to catch landowners in illegal clearing
Scorched Earth Disease Control
March 14, 2025
“Net Zero” is today’s apocalyptic dream articulated by Al Gore
Misplaced Green Energy
March 7, 2025
For Australia, “Net Zero” is a negative sum game – an economic suicide pact
Green Foods Fail Olympics
August 23, 2024
No Medals for Green Foods
Welcome the Warmth
August 1, 2024
Despite the shrill forecasts of dangerous global warming from Al Gore’s Gang, there are many signs that we are past the peak of the Holocene Warming. It is the next cycle of global cooling we have to fear.
A Pilot Plant for Net Zero
July 24, 2024
Hopefully Trump/Farage/Dutton will lead us back to safe ground before the Bowen blackouts arrive
Boot Them Out
July 17, 2024
First Aid for Flicker Power
July 13, 2024
Wind and solar energy have a fatal flaw – intermittency
Australia is the only G20 country in which nuclear power is illegal (maybe no one has told green regulators that we have had a nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights in Sydney since 1958)
Battery Baloney, Hydrogen Hype and Green Fairy Tales
July 1, 2024
Climate has always changed and a warm climate has never been a problem on Earth. It is cold that kills. Especially during blackouts.
Net Zero Burial of Carbon Dioxide?
June 4, 2024
So-called “Greens” are driving all this damage and cost to produce electricity that is intermittent and unreliable. And the worst is yet to come
The Carbon Capture Con
May 10, 2024
Global Warming has never been a threat to life on Earth - Ice is the killer.
Make Sure to keep a Diesel in the Shed
April 22, 2024
The UK has also been badly infected by the green energy virus
The Return of the Hungry Horses
April 10, 2024
This pro-ethanol policy pits plant farmers against animal farmers and green politicians against food consumers
The Numbered Men
April 4, 2024
This poem was written by Viv Forbes about 50 years ago. It is more relevant today
The Cold Truth on Global Warming
March 25, 2024
CLIMATE THE MOVIE
Ad-Free Media? There is no ad-free media
March 19, 2024
"Time's Up" for the ABC. We should sell it for whatever it will bring. Do it now--it will be worth less tomorrow.
Stop Wasting Water
January 28, 2024
We need more stored water. The wet La Nina will inevitably be followed by a droughty El Nino.
When the Ice Returns
December 14, 2023
Dreaming of a White Christmas?
Message for Dubai “It’s Time for a Climate Exit”
December 4, 2023
Time for Climate Exit
Green, Powerless and Defenceless
October 30, 2023
We are losing the resources, skills and machinery needed for our own security. And we fritter our declining resources on green energy white elephants like Snowy 2, green hydrogen
How the Big End of Town Gambled and Lost
October 17, 2023
Time to Punish the Big End
The Sad Story of Failed Voices
October 8, 2023
Let us save all this expense and acrimony and Vote "No" to legalised racial division
Why Australia Should vote “NO”
October 3, 2023
One More Voice
Achieving Net Zero
February 2, 2023
When the ice returns, derelict wind turbines and snow-bound solar panels will remain as stark tomb-stones in the graveyard of the failed Green religion
Let Them Eat Bugs
January 5, 2023
The War on Cattle
The Coming Crash of the Climate Cult
December 8, 2022
The world has passed the peak of this interglacial and the next long glacial cycle is edging closer
Not Green at All
November 14, 2022
Green energy costs are large, obvious and measureable. The climate benefits are illusory. Not green at all
Living in the Latter Days
November 2, 2022
Australians are living in the latter days of the Anglo/American Empire
Floods & Droughts are Nothing New
October 17, 2022
Prudent people would build more dams to moderate the La Nina floods and to provide insurance against the inevitable El Nino droughts