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:

Don’t Burn the Biosphere July 29, 2012
Burning biomass to generate electricity is Green madness.
Burning Food July 22, 2012
The biofuel schemes have already inflated world food prices. Shortages and famines will increase
Is Coal Dirty? Some Facts on Coal Combustion July 14, 2012
To describe carbon dioxide as a "lethal air pollutant" is an irresponsible lie
Taxing Termites, Wetlands, Volcanoes and Sacred Cows? July 8, 2012
It's just a wealth redistribution and control caper
Fix the Mess for Cheaper Electricity July 3, 2012
Abolish all rules forcing electricity retailers and consumers to pay above market prices for green energy, whether they want it or not
Carbon Drones, Criminals & Speculators June 27, 2012
The costs will increase for every day this tax lives
The Long and Costly War on Carbon June 23, 2012
The decades-long war on carbon that is already inflating the cost of everything.
The Big Carbon Tax Churn June 21, 2012
A huge bureaucracy to keep the whole mess churning
The Long and Costly War on Carbon June 18, 2012
The latest symptom of the costly Climate Madness infecting the well-fed elite of the western world.
Carbon Price Propaganda Taxes the Truth June 15, 2012
Deliberate deceptions
Sawmills to Save the Planet? June 9, 2012
Creating a real green industry out of a green subsidy industry.
Species Extinction is Nothing New June 4, 2012
Let us not hasten our own species extinction by starving ourselves of food and energy with foolish demonization of carbon, the building block of all life forms.
Carbon Tax Retrospective? May 29, 2012
Australia's carbon tax
The Soda Water Scare May 21, 2012
If soda water is so dangerous, then how come people consume it in copious amounts in beer, scotch and fizzy drinks?
Carbon Credit Forests - the CO2.con April 27, 2012
Like all bubble industries, the CO2.con industry must end in tears, and the sooner it ends the better.
The CO2.con Bubble April 23, 2012
Like all bubble industries, the CO2.con industry must end in tears, and the sooner it ends the better.
Vested Interests in the Climate Debate April 18, 2012
Every Australian has a vested interest in the outcome of this suicidal war on carbon
Solving Three Problems April 12, 2012
Canberra is about to drain our savings using the Gillard carbon tax.
Why Green Energy produces Red Ink April 9, 2012
The reason green energy creates so much red ink is pretty obvious – it just needs one day's observation of the sun.
Cancel Climate Capers April 4, 2012
Gillard/Greens scheme
Coal not candles should be the symbol of Earth Hour March 30, 2012
The Real Agenda of Earth Hour
Coal, not Candles March 29, 2012
It was coal that saved the forests being felled to fuel the first steam engines and produce charcoal for the first iron smelters.
Five Big Carbon Lies March 20, 2012
There is no consensus and the science is not settled
Carbon War erupts in Europe March 17, 2012
Coercive utopian green ideology
Carbon Lies March 10, 2012
No amount of weasel words from government propagandists and apologists will erase our memory of these four big lies about carbon.
Farming Carbon Credits March 4, 2012
Carbon Farming Initiative
The New Brisbane Line? February 29, 2012
The creeping paralysis of Wild Rivers disease should cure any aborigines of development dreams in the Never-Never land.
White Christmas in Brisbane? February 23, 2012
The severe cold has killed over 500 people and produced snow in the Sahara and ice on the canals of Venice.
Greens Destroy Ancestral Grasslands February 16, 2012
Banning private landowners from maintaining the productivity of their own land will have no effect on climate, but will give a huge boost to land degradation.
Wasteful Wind Power – Audit Needed January 25, 2012
Why not scrap the wind turbines and produce a steady supply of low cost power from the backup generators?