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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 Sad Story of Failed Voices

The Hawke Labor government established ATSIC in 1990 "so that aboriginals could be involved in the processes of government affecting their lives". It failed and was abolished by John Howard with support from Labor in 2005.

- Sunday, October 8, 2023

Why Australia Should vote "NO"

Australian politicians are promoting a divisive and racist change to our constitution - the creation of an indigenous "Voice" with undefined powers. "Indigenous" means "born here", so most of us are indigenous. And for all of us, our earliest Australian ancestors came from somewhere else. To divide indigenous Australians on the basis of skin colour or length of ancestry is more about politics than about justice. We are all Australians and constitutional changes that promote apartheid policies should be rejected.

- Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Achieving Net Zero

According to the clerics of the Green Cult, once we blow up our last coal mine, send all diesel engines to the wreckers, stop using concrete, reinvent sailing clippers, cover the grasslands with solar clutter and the hills with wind machines and then slaughter all of our cattle. . . global climate will become serene - not too warm, not too cold. Wild weather will cease, and there will be no more droughts, floods, cyclones or snow storms and no more plant and animal extinctions.

But the records written in the rocks tell a far different story about climate changes. Even when nature was in full control, it was not a serene place.

- Thursday, February 2, 2023

Let Them Eat Bugs

Let Them Eat Bugs, class=They started a war on our cattle Which led to a hell of a battle. Our burgers are now made of crickets, And buying real beef needs their tickets, Imprinted with silly Green prattle. Pictorial Comment. “The War on Cattle”: Feel free to use this cartoon with no alterations.
Viv and Judy Forbes breed meat sheep, eat beef, lamb and pork, and feed crickets to their insect-eating hens.
- Thursday, January 5, 2023

The Coming Crash of the Climate Cult

The Coming Crash of the Climate CultThe Climate Cult worships two green idols--electric vehicles and wind-solar energy. This is part of a futile UN scheme promoting "Net Zero Emissions" which aims to cool the climate of the world by waging war on CO2 plant food. Green worship is the state religion of all western nations. It is promoted by billionaires with other agendas, and endlessly repeated by the UN, the bureaucracy, all government media, state education and most big business leaders.
- Thursday, December 8, 2022

Not Green at All

Not Green at All“Green” policies are destroying the natural environment and changing local weather. This is part of a futile UN scheme claiming to improve the climate of the world.  All green energy degrades its environment.  Take wind power. 
- Monday, November 14, 2022

Living in the Latter Days

Australians are living in the latter days of the Anglo/American EmpireFor centuries now, world power centres have been moving west – from Mongolia, to Europe, to Britain, to North America, and now Asia beckons. The Anglo/American Empire today resembles the decadent dying days of Rome. Europe is becoming a green energy wasteland, the British Empire died with Churchill, and America has dodderers and adolescents in charge. Australia plans to defend the outback with battery-powered Bushmasters (good for battlefields with plenty of power points). The new defence minister has restored “rainbow morning teas” (banned by Peter Dutton). And an Australian iron oligarch and green hydrogen speculator, Andrew Forrest, aims to de-power Xi Jinping by inviting him to the Climate Summit.
- Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Floods & Droughts are Nothing New

Floods & Droughts are Nothing NewThere is nothing unusual about today's floods, fires, droughts, homelessness and hunger – they have always been part of the human story. But satellite technology allows us to track them better and our world-wide media revels in disaster-reporting, bringing tearfully tragic scenes into every living room, every night.
Population growth means that more people are affected by weather extremes, but there is no evidence that floods and droughts are getting worse.
- Monday, October 17, 2022

Earth is not a Greenhouse

Earth is not a GreenhouseWarming alarmists claim: “Earth’s atmosphere acts like the glass in a greenhouse.” This is false. Glass is largely transparent to incoming solar radiation which warms whatever is inside the greenhouse. If the greenhouse had no walls (like the atmosphere), warmed greenhouse air would rise by convection, escape out via the open sides, and heavy cooler air near to the ground would flow in to take its place. This open “Greenhouse” would stay close to outside temperature.
- Friday, October 14, 2022

Green Energy Peril: Powerless Times Ahead

Green Energy Peril: Powerless Times AheadIt is a still winter night in Green-topia. Wind turbines are idle; solar panels are in darkness; some are covered with snow. In the rich green suburbs, electric cars are getting re-charged. Lights, heaters and TV are on, and coffee is percolating.
- Thursday, September 22, 2022

Ruled by Fools

Ruled by FoolsAustralia has become a nation ruled by fools. We have surrendered power over every aspect of our lives and industry to fifteen debating chambers in eight ruling cities. These assemblies are controlled by lawyers, unionists, centralists, green dreamers, power seekers and tax consumers.
- Friday, September 16, 2022

The Plague of Green Elephants

The Plague of Green ElephantsLegend says that if you displeased the King of Siam, he would give you a white elephant. These rare and protected elephants were incredibly expensive to keep. So a “White Elephant” came to mean a possession that is useless, troublesome, expensive to maintain and difficult to dispose of - like a Sacred Cow, but much bigger. Today the deluded rulers of the Western world are gifting us and future generations with plagues of Green Elephants – useless, expensive, protected, green rubbish.
- Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Forty New Bills

Forty New Bills, Builder Generations outvoted by the Spoiled Brat generations – the Baby Boomers, the Millenniums, Blockade Australia and the Thunbergs
- Thursday, August 4, 2022

Volcanoes, Oceans and Weather

Volcanoes, Oceans and WeatherDespite Green/ABC propaganda, recent Australian floods were not caused by coal, cattle or cars. Weather is driven by winds; solar energy powers the winds and draws moisture for them from the oceans. These eternal natural rain-making processes have been aided recently by two extra factors.  Firstly a big La Nina weather event in the Pacific Ocean has left warmer water closer to Australia.  Secondly, there is increased underwater volcanism in this region as evidenced by the volcanic eruptions near Vanuatu. 
- Saturday, July 30, 2022

The Target on Australia’s Back

The Target on Australia’s BackCongratulations to Ted Dwyer in “Spectator Australia” (25/6/22) for asking why Australia has bet-the-house on the US/NATO adventurism in Ukraine. There are few innocent parties in Ukraine today - an undeclared civil war has been simmering for this whole century. Since the Mongol destruction of Kiev in 1240, almost everyone has invaded Ukraine – its flat fertile lands and mineral resources attract plunderers. Russia has a long memory of invaders from the west including Napoleon, the Austrians, the Poles, the Swedes and Hitler’s Nazis.
- Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Leading the Green Lemmings

Australia’s new ALP/Green/Teal government has a Zero Emissions plan, putting them on track to be world leader of the Green Lemmings. John Kerry of USA was a strong contender to win the Green Lemming race. But he was given a stiff handicap by UN organisers because America has access to coal, oil, gas, hydro and nuclear power, plus cross-border pipelines and power lines. Biden is trying to close these loopholes.
- Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Renewable Energy or Reliable  Energy--but Not Both

Renewable Energy or Reliable  Energy--but Not BothAustralia’s new ALP Government has gigantic green energy plans to be funded by electricity consumers and taxpayers.  They promise (with a straight face) that Australia’s electricity will be 82% renewable by 2030. They predict 43% reduction in emissions and “on track for net zero by 2050”. They threaten to litter the landscape with 400 community batteries, 85 solar banks and a $20B expansion of the electricity grid. This gigantic “green” electricity plan will need at least 150 million Chinese solar panels covering outback kingdoms of land, plus thousands of bird-slicing metal-hungry wind turbines, plus never-ending roads and powerlines – not friendly to grass or trees and with no room for native birds, bees, bats or marsupials - not green at all. 
- Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Australia’s Great Green Gamble

Green millionaires and other left-wing activists supported slick campaigns promoting a gaggle of well-off women who won 6 seats in the leafy-green suburbs. Being rich blue-bloods with dark green policies they adopted Teal-coloured uniforms. Dark Greens also grabbed some inner city electorates. The Liberal-National “conservatives” got their lowest vote for over 70 years, losing control of parliament. The left-wing ALP also got their lowest vote for over 70 years but won a slim majority in the lower house of federal Parliament.
- Monday, June 6, 2022

Hydrogen – the Magic Rainbow Gas

Green HydrogenIf you believe in the tooth fairy, or vote Green, you probably believe that hydrogen is the magic rainbow gas that will banish global warming, replace wicked hydro-carbons in electricity generation, fuel tomorrow’s trucks, planes and heavy equipment, and earn unlimited export income. There is one big problem – unlike coal, oil and gas, there are no hidden pools of hydrogen we can tap. Every bit of hydrogen has to be manufactured from water or hydrocarbons using huge amounts of energy.
- Thursday, May 19, 2022

The Bottomless Black Hole in the Great Barrier Reef

The Bottomless Black Hole in the Great Barrier ReefIn 2012 Malcolm Turnbull snitched $440 million from taxpayers to "save the Great Barrier Reef". In 2022 Scott Morrison promised to pour another billion into the Barrier Reef Black Hole. Then last week Anthony Albanese promised another $220 million "to save the reef from yellow-crazy ants".
- Sunday, May 15, 2022

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