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:
Earth is not a Greenhouse
October 14, 2022
Solar heating at the surface just causes that hot air to rise and it cools either by radiation or adiabatic expansion. It is replaced by cooler air.
Green Energy Peril: Powerless Times Ahead
September 22, 2022
Watch Europe as its hungry, powerless winter unfolds. Their peril is our warning
Ruled by Fools
September 16, 2022
A cold hungry winter is about to show Europe the deadly dangers of listening to green dreamers
The Plague of Green Elephants
August 31, 2022
This plague of Green Elephants will destroy our industries, our farms and our access to cheap reliable fuels and electricity
Forty New Bills
August 4, 2022
Builder Generations outvoted by the Spoiled Brat generations – the Baby Boomers, the Millenniums, Blockade Australia and the Thunbergs
Volcanoes, Oceans and Weather
July 30, 2022
"If emissions of CO2 are the problem, why have we banned emissions-free nuclear power?"
The Target on Australia’s Back
June 28, 2022
Unless we dump Net Zero Nonsense, we will soon be defenceless in a hostile world
Leading the Green Lemmings
June 21, 2022
Aussie winners of the Great Green Lemming Race will be acclaimed by widespread blackouts and a failing economy
Renewable Energy or Reliable Energy—but Not Both
June 14, 2022
Australia has no extension cord to neighbours with reliable energy – we are on our own
Australia’s Great Green Gamble
June 6, 2022
Australians took a great green gamble in the recent election
Hydrogen – the Magic Rainbow Gas
May 19, 2022
Most hydrogen is made directly from coal, oil or natural gas and the main process produces hydrogen and . . . more of the dreaded CO
The Bottomless Black Hole in the Great Barrier Reef
May 15, 2022
Corals have survived for millions of years. They laughed off ice ages and warm eras, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and dramatic changes in sea levels
Build More Dams
May 14, 2022
La Nina that brings flooding rains to Eastern Australia
Old Reliable Coal
May 13, 2022
Those supporting “More Green energy” are supporting “More Blackouts”
How I will Vote, and Why
May 9, 2022
Australia is facing a crisis. We hold a large rich continent with a small population. It is lightly defended with inadequate weapons.
Power not Poverty
March 17, 2022
The world has changed. We can no longer afford "Net Negative Energy" or "Building Back Worse"
Stop these Fuelish Policies
March 8, 2022
Australia needs to dump its fuelish green energy policies and ignore its woke green capitalists
Greenism Destroying Australia’s Ancient Grasslands
February 14, 2022
The deliberate sacrifice of grasslands to solar panels and woody weeds is another suicidal green policy
Whirling Triffids are now Invading our Seashores
December 28, 2021
Proven electricity generators driven by coal, gas, hydro or nuclear with a small land footprint are far less damaging to the environment of land and sea than the Whirling Triffids
The Electric Highway – A Fuelish Policy
December 10, 2021
If the ALP/Green Coalition wins the next election, this energy/transport disaster will visit us sooner
More Trees, Less Grass, No Food
November 7, 2021
Rural and regional Australia should be rewarded, not punished, for productively absorbing giga-tonnes of carbon dioxide.
The Last COP-Out
October 29, 2021
COP-Out-26 illustrates to the realists of China, Russia, India and Brazil that the West has lost its marbles
PM Morrison should take some Aussie Coal to Chilly Glasgow
October 15, 2021
Boris Johnson should also get a fracking expert from Colorado to attend COP26 to teach UK and Europe how to frack their abundant gas deposits instead of paying ransom prices for Russian gas
Time for Truth-Telling in Glasgow
October 11, 2021
These jamborees are designed to spread climate lies and green energy propaganda
Weather, Climate and Model Madness
September 15, 2021
Oceans retain heat longer than land. Warm oceans and cold land can cause massive precipitation of snow, advancing ice sheets and a cold hungry world
All Trees, Grass and Cows are Green
September 3, 2021
Bovine Methane? The carbon in methane comes from pastures and the atmosphere – grazing cattle put it back
Real Meat is Green - it Eats Grass
August 17, 2021
"Hands Off our Grasslands, our Cattle and our Real Meat"
Forests need Foresters
July 15, 2021
The new forest policy is – “control everything, debate endlessly, allow nothing and do nothing. Then, when everything burns, call an enquiry and ignore the findings.”
Hydrogen Hype and Hurdles
July 9, 2021
Forget the global warming religion and get rid of intermittent wind and solar generators from the grid unless they provide their own backup generators. Cut their subsidies and let them use their intermittent energy to generate unsubsidised green hydr
The Blackout Agenda
June 16, 2021
In the long history of Earth, there have been dozens of icy extinctions, but no global warming crises