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:
Quit Paris Treaty.
July 5, 2018
Australia should quit the Paris Climate Treaty
Innocent Bystander Lynched
June 23, 2018
The green mafia is trying to lynch an innocent victim
How to Foster Famine
June 7, 2018
Greens are inviting famine, humanity's ancient enemy, into our cities via the green door
Climate Lessons from King Canute
May 7, 2018
It’s time the Climate Aristocrats admitted they cannot predict or control climate, they have harmed consumers (especially the world’s poorest people), and they are achieving nothing useful for the environment.
No level of carbon taxes or emission targets will stop Earth’s climate from changing. Nature rules, not politicians. We must aim for resilience, but be prepared to adapt
Earth Day should Celebrate “Engines and Electricity”.
April 23, 2018
On balance, however, tools, engines and electricity have allowed humans to live better from less land and natural resources per person than ever before
The Wanton Worship of Woody Weeds
April 7, 2018
Instead of tree clearing bans we need to free our land managers for a war on woody weeds using controlled burning, better grazing management and reversal of the unjust Kyoto land sterilisation program
Another Endangered Species?
March 29, 2018
When the ice returns, derelict and snow-bound wind turbines and solar panels will remain as stark evidence of the failed Green religion of yet another endangered species
“The Oceans will Boil”
March 11, 2018
Hansen Claims Oceans will Boil
Tomorrow’s Grim, Global, Green Dictatorship
March 7, 2018
The Despotic Green New World is coming. Climate alarm is the stalking horse, “sustainable development” is the war cry, and global government is the goal
Planned Power Chaos
February 22, 2018
High-priced electricity from an unreliable grid
Junk all Junkets
February 13, 2018
The Never-ending Battles of the Coral Sea
January 26, 2018
Humans should copy the corals – “forget the computer climate models but watch real data like actual sea levels and . . . move when you have to.”
The Green Empress has No Clothes
January 18, 2018
But King Winter has exposed the weak underbelly of Germany’s energy policy. Empress Merkel now faces a hostile political climate with no clothes
Be Careful What you Wish For
January 9, 2018
The Never-ending Battles of the Coral Sea
December 24, 2017
Imminent threat to Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef
Back to Bolted-Down Industries
November 17, 2017
Red-green energy and environmental policies will make us more dependent on the industries they now attack – mining, farming, forestry and fishing
Party Time for Climateers
November 9, 2017
The money is great, the parties are fun, and the prize is power
“Zero Emissions” will Test the Convictions of Canberrans
November 2, 2017
Warmth is no Worry but Cold Kills
October 26, 2017
Ice, Snow, Global Warming, Icebergs
Blackouts Stalk Green Energy Utopia
August 8, 2017
When the city wakes to another cloudy windless day, where will its electricity come from?
A Diesel in the Shed
April 13, 2017
Question: “What did South Australians have before candles?” Answer: “Electricity”
Battery Baloney
March 30, 2017
Society has better things to do with community cash than squandering it on massive green energy toys and battery baloney
Try Energy Freedom
March 12, 2017
Let’s try free enterprise in the energy market before we all freeze in the dark.
Green Enemies of the Environment
March 1, 2017
Green Energy in California
End Climate Propaganda
February 7, 2017
President Trump is right. All government expenditure on anything with “climate” in its title or mission statement should be scrapped immediately
The Delusional War on Warmth
January 17, 2017
A frigid ice-house is far more dangerous and destructive than a warm greenhouse
Disarm and Defund the Green Globalists NOW
January 7, 2017
Give them no rest until their infamous Grab for Global Power called the Paris Climate Treaty is rejected, never to rise again
The Social “Cost” of Carbon is Positive
December 23, 2016
bureaucratic weapon to demonize the fabulous fossil fuels that deliver food, heat, light and power to the modern world
Clean Green Batteries?
December 14, 2016
Batteries have an important place in our lives. But they are not “emissions free”