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:

Flood Risks January 16, 2011
Building bans on flood prone land
Adapt or Die January 9, 2011
Taxing carbon to subsidise green playthings will not stop the floods, prevent the snow or change future climate
Stop Climate Industry Waste – Weather-proof our infrastructure instead January 4, 2011
Statement by Viv Forbes, Chairman, the Carbon Sense Coalition
Ignore Climate Fakirs and Shamans December 31, 2010
This is the first generation that has sacrificed its savings on the altars of the climate gods
Welcome the Warmth December 26, 2010
If global warming is so bad, why do people try to escape winter in cold places
Put Piddle Power in the Parks? December 22, 2010
Wind farm noise
The Pyramid of Frauds December 19, 2010
The Global Warming Industry is now fed by billions of dollars from western taxpayers and consumers, Unproven and now discredited claims
Green Power generates Red Ink December 11, 2010
Mindless green dreams
No Rerun for “Rudd’s Folly” December 6, 2010
Statement by Viv Forbes, Chairman, the Carbon Sense Coalition
No Rerun for “Kyoto Folly” December 5, 2010
The only way to kill carbon is to kill the economy
The Last Fling of the Thermophobics? November 30, 2010
If they are so scared of warmth why do they go to places like Cancun for their annual office party?
Boycott the Cancun Climate Circus November 28, 2010
This conference is no longer about climate – it is about international redistribution of wealth and industry from the west to the rest of the world
Cars, Cattle and Ethanol November 22, 2010
Scientific incompetence or deliberate fraud by government climate alarmists
Who Wants a Carbon Tax? November 13, 2010
Wind and solar subsidiesuckers want heavy carbon taxes to hide their chronic inability to provide economic and reliable power
Five Foolish Food Policies. November 5, 2010
Statement by Viv Forbes, Chairman, The Carbon Sense Coalition, Climate alarmism and green extremism
Foolish Food Policies November 4, 2010
Statement by Viv Forbes, Chairman, The Carbon Sense Coalition
Four Foolish Food Policies November 3, 2010
Starving people will not appreciate this barren harvest
Today, 27th October 2010, is Climate Fools Day October 27, 2010
A whole generation of Climate Fools will have to be rooted out of our parliaments before Climate Sense reigns again.
Climate Fools Day October 25, 2010
The most absurd Bill that this House and Parliament has ever had to examine
Climate Fools Day October 24, 2010
27th October is Climate Fools Day.
Coal AND Crops October 3, 2010
Green war on carbon fuels, Not Coal or Crops
Sloppy Science from BHP head September 19, 2010
Mainstream Climate Science” is a stagnant swamp beside the real river of science
A Carbon Tax for Everyone Else? September 18, 2010
The whole purpose of a carbon tax is to force us to use less of every product or activity that produces that harmless gas-of-life, carbon dioxide.
Learning from History? September 12, 2010
This is a battle for ideas, and lovers of science, freedom and enterprise are losing.
Deep Greens & Big Coal win from Cropping Land Bans August 31, 2010
Farmers will soon realise the liability generated by these new blots on their land title
Australian Election Elation August 22, 2010
War on carbon promoted by the Green-ALP coalition was rejected
What shall we eat? August 16, 2010
Farming Carbon Credits
Resource Sterilisation endangers National Security August 14, 2010
“History has no examples where a small number of self-indulgent people have managed to squat on valuable land and idle resources forever
Climate Control is futile.  Be prepared or be sorry. August 8, 2010
Wealthy societies can and do improve their local environments of air, land and water.
Making Things still Matters August 5, 2010
Climatism and green tape are strangling productive enterprise in Australia