Viv Forbes

Taxing Termites, Wetlands, Volcanoes and Sacred Cows?

Australia's tax on carbon dioxide now applies to big power stations, rubbish tips, steel works, cement plants, refineries and coal mines. But many of them have been given exemptions or compensation packages. Naturally they will pass all net costs onto consumers, but our government says that most voters will be compensated and will feel no pain. So it all looks like achieving a net nothing.

Fix the Mess for Cheaper Electricity

We are told that the carbon tax will allow the market to determine how to best reduce the use of carbon fuels. But we still have a thicket of bureaucratic rules, subsidies and mandates driving up the cost of electricity. This is not the market reacting to a simple tax – it is a costly mess.

Carbon Drones, Criminals & Speculators

Australia's new tax on carbon dioxide will not affect the climate, nor lower sea levels, nor increase the polar ice caps, nor save the bilby.

The Long and Costly War on Carbon

The Australian government claims that next month's tax on carbon dioxide cannot be blamed for today's soaring costs of living.

The Big Carbon Tax Churn

According to government propaganda, their tax on carbon dioxide will produce great benefits but no one except "the big polluters" will feel its corrosive cost.

The Long and Costly War on Carbon

The Australian government claims that next month's tax on carbon dioxide cannot be blamed for today's soaring costs of living.

Carbon Price Propaganda Taxes the Truth

Two more lies: Firstly, a tax is a compulsory levy on production, consumption, income or expenditure.

Sawmills to Save the Planet?

Climate alarmists demand that we fill the land with forests in order to combat global warming. That is not a sustainable policy.

Species Extinction is Nothing New

As the global warming bubble deflates, another scare is being inflated – species extinction. Naturally the professional alarmists present this as a brand new threat, caused by man's industry.

Carbon Tax Retrospective?

Australia's carbon tax has already started to combat global warming by producing the coldest May in Canberra for fifty years.

The Soda Water Scare

The climatists have a new alarm – the soda water scare.

Carbon Credit Forests - the CO2.con

CO2Australia boasts of planting three million carbon credit trees. This is "just the beginning" of a new bubble industry, the CO2.con.

The CO2.con Bubble

CO2Australia boasts of planting three million carbon credit trees. This is "just the beginning" of a new bubble industry, the CO2.con.

Vested Interests in the Climate Debate

It seems that whenever global warming alarmists have no supporting evidence or logic, they resort to name calling using terms such as "vested interests".

Solving Three Problems

We have three problems in Queensland, all created or made worse by the federal government.

Why Green Energy produces Red Ink

Generating electricity from solar panels in cold, cloudy Northern Europe is like growing paw-paws in Iceland – it can be done, but who would be so silly as to try?

Cancel Climate Capers

Pretend for a moment that we wanted to forcibly reduce the production of carbon dioxide by Australians.

Coal not candles should be the symbol of Earth Hour

It was coal that produced clean electric power which cleared the smog produced by dirty combustion and open fires in big cities like London and Pittsburgh. Much of the third world still suffers choking fumes and smog because they do not have clean electric power and burn wood, cardboard, unwashed coal and cow dung for home heat.

Coal, not Candles

Earth hour should celebrate coal, not candles.

Five Big Carbon Lies

A print-ready copy of this issue of "Carbon Sense" can be downloaded from (Link) The Australian government's plan to sell their un-saleable carbon tax has hit a snag – their pollsters have discovered that the word ''carbon'' provokes anger in the electorate.