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:

Five Fatal Flaws of Solar Energy July 24, 2014
Collecting solar energy will never play more than a minor and very expensive role in supplying grid power.
Death by Delay - the New Green Weapon July 18, 2014
Delay, Green tape, Keystone Pipeline, shale gas, Wild Rivers, 400 ppm, consensus, Ian Plimer, Wes Allen, carbon tax.
Promoting Parasitic Power Producers July 16, 2014
Green zealots posing as energy engineers should be free to play with their green energy toys at their own expense
Blowing Our Dollars in the Wind July 14, 2014
People who claim climate sainthood for wind energy should be required to prove this by detailed life-of-project analysis before getting legislative support and subsidies
The Sky Fell last month, but almost nobody noticed July 8, 2014
Chicken Littles and Carbon Dioxide
Death by Delay July 1, 2014
The anti-industry, anti-carbon zealots who control the EPA and other arms of the US federal government.
The Phony Consensus June 26, 2014
The consensus of alarmists is trying to lynch an innocent party
Never-Ending Green Disasters June 23, 2014
Renewable energy
Sea Levels are Never Still June 17, 2014
It’s time the climate alarmists learned Canute’s lesson and focussed on real world problems
Poison Propaganda – the Quick-Silver Scares June 12, 2014
Evidence Trumps the Phony Consensus June 10, 2014
The consensus of alarmists is trying to lynch an innocent party
Poison Propaganda June 2, 2014
Hydro-carbon fuels, EPA, mercury
False Alarms in the Frigid Zone May 30, 2014
There is nothing unusual about ice caps melting, ice sheets splitting, icebergs calving or glaciers advancing or retreating
Repeal the RET, Now May 25, 2014
The costly RET can have no measurable effect on global warming
Weather Vs Climate May 11, 2014
Weather and climate have been so politicised that most commentaries are now merely propaganda.
Drop Direct Action May 9, 2014
Carbon handouts
Cut Climatism Costs May 4, 2014
Climate alarmism
Modelling Madness April 28, 2014
IPCC climateers
Weather Vs Climate April 23, 2014
The Brave New World of global warming alarmists
Food Free Fridays Coming? April 15, 2014
There is no doubt that foolish climate POLICIES will produce less food.
Food-free Fridays? April 7, 2014
There is no doubt that foolish climate POLICIES will produce less food
Flood Plains are for Floods March 30, 2014
Global warming can’t be blamed for more floods because, for 17 years, there has been no global warming.
Engineering the Emissions Target Depression March 25, 2014
Is the Climate Change Authority engineering an emissions target depression to achieve its savage cuts, or is this just another mindless model-driven target?
Welcome the Warmth – Cold is the Killer March 23, 2014
Cold eras are remembered for bitter storms, starvation, migrations and wars
Modern Magic - Clean Energy by Wire March 16, 2014
“Clean coal by Wire” using clean washed coal in modern out-of-town power stations will work the same magic in Asian cities today.
Engineering the Emissions Target Depression March 9, 2014
Carbon dioxide
Carbon-centric Climate Models fail Consistently February 25, 2014
There is no measurable evidence that carbon dioxide (CO2) controls global warming. In fact it may be the reverse
Carbon Dioxide May Calm the Climate, but it Can’t Cause Wild Weird Weather February 17, 2014
A meteorologist never checks today’s CO2 level before he prepares a weather forecast for the next few days
Wandering Professor causes Global Cooling? February 12, 2014
Australian Professor Matthew England
Solar Energy Storage – A Gift from Gaia February 10, 2014
For millions of years Earth has use photosynthesis to store solar energy