Viv Forbes

The Faults, Fallacies and Failures of Wind Power

Wind power is not free. All natural energy resources such as coal, wind and sun appear “free” – no one has to incur costs to create them. But turning a “free” resource into usable electricity costs money for collecting, generating and distributing that energy. To consumers and tax payers, the real cost of wind power is very high, no matter how well it is hidden by politicians.

Clean Coal by Wire

There is a persistent green myth that coal-fired power generation causes city smogs. It does not.

The Inaugural Golden Fleece Award – for Flagrant Fleecing of Community Resources

The Carbon Sense Coalition has awarded its Inaugural Golden Fleece Award to Kevin Rudd and coal industry leaders for “flagrant fleecing of community savings in futile ‘research’ on Carbon Capture & Sequestration – a costly and complex process designed to capture and bury carbon dioxide gas produced by burning carbon fuels such as coal, oil and gas”.

Warm and well fed, or hungry in the dark?

Politicians are continually increasing the risks of electricity blackouts with their dangerous climate policies. It is foolish in the extreme to believe that humans can change the future climate by collecting carbon taxes and covering the hills with wind turbines.

Warm and well fed, or hungry in the dark?

Which is worse - gradual man-made global warming or sudden electricity blackout?

Pray for Green Britain this Easter

We in Coal Country should pray for Britons who have just two days of imported gas supplies, wind turbines becalmed, snow falling and four reliable coal-fired power stations being prematurely closed in case they cause global warming.

Energy Roulette Week—The antithesis of Earth Hour

Media Statement by Viv Forbes Chairman, The Carbon Sense Coalition. Any quotes taken directly from this statement may be attributed to Mr Forbes The Carbon Sense Coalition today called on electricity consumers to boycott Earth Hour grandstanding by pampered people too silly to recognise the realities and benefits of reliable electricity.

Carbon’s Wrongful Conviction

Three stubborn facts suggest that carbon is suffering a grave miscarriage of justice.

The World’s most Dangerous Gas

Climate alarmists say that man is heating the globe by producing carbon dioxide. They cite evidence of “man-made global warming” (MMGW) everywhere.

Floods on Flood Plains

Every flood is covering an old flood plain.

Why Wind Power Won’t Work

More Destructive Green Policies

A recent report from friends who suffered terrible losses of buildings, fences, pasture and cattle in the Coonabarabran fire commenced with the ominous and oft-repeated message: “a raging fire came out of the National Park straight for us”.

Drug Test Politicians?

Footballers on drugs don’t worry me, but politicians can do a lot of damage, even on caffeine.

Foggy Thinking on Smog

Coal gets blamed for all the bad things, even the Asian Smog.

Time to Build Better Infrastructure

Floods, fires, cyclones and drought are ever-present features of the Australian landscape and have been here far longer than cars, cattle, coal miners and timber getters.

Magic-gas Discovery

It has been discovered that Australian coal has a magical property – it is one of a small group of coals which produces an invisible gas with super-natural properties.

Alien Environment Fuels Firestorms

A recent report from friends who suffered terrible losses of buildings, fences, pasture and cattle in the Coonabarabran fire commenced with the ominous and oft-repeated message: “a raging fire came out of the National Park straight for us”.

The Gorbel Prize

The Chairman of Carbon Sense, Mr Viv Forbes, said that so many green policies that appear to have useful environmental goals fail to analyse properly the long-term unforeseen consequences. Green politicians need to learn Newton’s Law of Government Regulations: – “Whenever government legislates to force an economic outcome, the long term effect will be equal and opposite to that intended.”

Using Food for Fuel is an Evil Exchange

In the fuzzy “science” of economics, one law stands out like a light-house in the fog – the law of supply and demand.

UK’s Green Government wins the Inaugural Gorebalism Award

Green politicians need to learn Newton’s Law of Government Regulations: – “Whenever government legislates to force an economic outcome, the long term effect will be equal and opposite to that intended.”