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:

Why Big Mining loves Big Green December 7, 2016
So Big Mining can extract benefits from green energy while earning political credits
Defund all CSIRO Climate “Research” November 9, 2016
Australia should cease all government funding for global warming “research” and carbon-centric climate models
The Battle for our Grasslands and Livestock October 30, 2016
It is a foolish and costly fantasy to believe that Earth’s climate can be controlled by passing laws, imposing taxes, attempting to manipulate the bodily emissions of farm animals
Australia needs a Paris Plebiscite September 17, 2016
The Clexit Coalition
Climate Cargo Cult Circles the Pacific September 12, 2016
John Kerry was right - this new Global Warming religion is spreading faster than radical Islam. It is the new Cargo Cult
Cease Tax-Funded Climate Tourism September 6, 2016
Is there no end to his energy-wasting climate tourism? If they believe the science is settled, no more conferences are needed
Climate Science is NOT Settled August 29, 2016
A Statement by Viv Forbes, Founding Secretary of “Clexit” (Climate Exit)
Clexit Creeps Closer August 2, 2016
Carbon dioxide does not control the climate. It is an essential plant food and more carbon dioxide will produce more plant growth and a greener globe
How to Vote for Carbon Sense June 24, 2016
Put the Greens or their candidates last in every contest
Zero Emissions? June 13, 2016
Please hold your breath.
The Real Energy Deniers May 23, 2016
Green energy zealots' energy-destroying policies will reduce global prosperity and population back towards levels prevailing in those times
Wilderness Worship - Back to Neander May 4, 2016
The Neanderthals lived in a cold wilderness with zero emissions. If green zealots insist we all return to Neander, most humans will share their fate.
Flexible Greenhouse Accounting April 27, 2016
Mobs of unloved Australian cattle grazing native grasses are vilified because they emit those dreadful greenhouse gases - water vapour, carbon dioxide and methane.
On Earth Day we should Celebrate The True Green Fuels – Hydrocarbons and Nuclear April 22, 2016
Without carbon and nuclear fuels, Earth would be raped for fuel and food by destitute people trying to eke out a living without the greatest boon to modern living – cheap reliable energy
The DI Revolution Spreads April 10, 2016
The pampered green class will rejoice temporarily, but will soon join the modern pommy paupers forced back to candles, poaching and workhouses.
Carbon Delusions and Defective Models April 6, 2016
Currently the supplies of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are recovering gently from record lows
Poverty and the Environment March 28, 2016
Western recession and UN promotion of green energy will also increase poverty in the third world
Enjoy the Warmth March 19, 2016
Promoting destructive energy policies designed to prevent warming (and starve the plant world), just as the next climate winter approaches, is suicidal behaviour.
Weather Ripples and Climate Tides March 11, 2016
There are many signs that Earth’s climate is gradually cooling
Making Things Matters March 4, 2016
This industrial decay will become obvious one still, dark, winter evening when wind turbines stand idle, solar panels have logged off, batteries are flat
Be Like the Beaver – Build More Dams February 27, 2016
Humans must copy the beavers and “Build more Dams”. And help the biosphere by burning more hydrocarbons.
Warmth supports Life – Cold Kills February 24, 2016
There is abundant food in steamy equatorial regions but only a few hardy species survive precariously in the dry, icy climate of the frigid zones.
Get Fair Dinkum February 15, 2016
Carbon dioxide is innocent and all this has nothing to do with controlling climate, but everything to do with controlling people.
Cosmic Cycles, not Carbon Dioxide, Control Climate January 20, 2016
It is a wonder of the modern era that people who cannot accurately forecast next weekend’s weather claim they can regulate the temperature of the whole globe by bashing industry and taxing carbon.
Paris Climate Party agrees . . . to have another Party. January 10, 2016
After the Paris Party, our neck is in the noose. They are planning a global green tyranny.
Paris Climate Party agrees . . . to have another Party January 5, 2016
After the Paris Party, our neck is in the noose. They are planning a global green tyranny.
Be Like the Beaver and Build More Dams December 15, 2015
Those infected with the green religion believe we should waste our fresh water by allowing it all to return as quickly as possible to the salty seas.
Cheating and corruption plague the climate business December 8, 2015
Politicians with hidden agendas exaggerating warming dangers while ignoring warming benefits, pushing propaganda as education, and lying about the “pollution” supposedly caused by the gas-of-life, carbon dioxide.
The 21st Birthday Party in Paris - It’s Time they Grew Up November 29, 2015
Turnbull and Co should not insult Parisians by taking part in such frivolous folly.
Premier’s Electric Cars Run on Carbon Fuels November 21, 2015
The sun does not shine at night, so the car will have to rely on grid-power from coal.