Viv Forbes

Who Wants a Carbon Tax?

When the Australian PM says “we need a price on carbon”, she is just sprouting another misleading Wongism like “we must reduce carbon pollution”.

Five Foolish Food Policies.

The Carbon Sense Coalition today accused western politicians of creating a food crisis with foolish food policies.

Foolish Food Policies

The Carbon Sense Coalition today accused western politicians of creating a food crisis with foolish food policies.

Four Foolish Food Policies

It is no surprise that the world is facing a looming shortage of food and edible oils. Every market has two sides – demand and supply.

Today, 27th October 2010, is Climate Fools Day

For the last 20 years politicians, jets setting bureaucrats and vested interests have been plotting how to make Climate Fools of the western world, taxing industry and consumers to fund green schemes, carbon speculators and international wealth redistribution.

Climate Fools Day

The Carbon Sense Coalition today called on Australians and Americans to join the world in celebrating Climate Fools Day on October 27th.

Climate Fools Day

The day was named by protestors outside the British House of Commons on 27th October 2008 when the house was debating the Climate Bill. As the first October snow in 70 years blanketed the House (and a big swathe of Europe), MP’s droned on about the need to fight global warming.

Coal AND Crops

The Queensland Government has announced plans to create a new category of restricted land called “Strategic Cropping Land” which bans mining or development.

Sloppy Science from BHP head

Mr Kloppers of BHP says that the mainstream science is correct, and we need to stabilise (and eventually reduce) the carbon concentration in the atmosphere”.

A Carbon Tax for Everyone Else?

Is it sad to see the Big Australian joining Big Government, Big Unions and Big Business in supporting a Big New Carbon Tax.

Learning from History?

The battle about global warming is supposedly all about science, but it is also about economics and history. The war on carbon fuels promoted by the Deep Greens is not a road to the future - it is a slippery slide to the past. Their policies threaten to take us back to a time when, as Churchill said “the world was for the few and the very few”. Another described life then as “nasty, brutish and short”.

Deep Greens & Big Coal win from Cropping Land Bans

The Queensland Government has proposed a new category of restricted land called “Strategic Cropping Land” which bans mining or development. This could blight 4% of Queensland, representing an area more than twice the size of Holland and including many areas likely to contain valuable mineral and energy resources.

Australian Election Elation

Great news from Canberra – Parliament is paralyzed and, for now, can do no harm.

What shall we eat?

The ALP has offered to buy votes from Australian farmers with carbon credits for growing trees.

Resource Sterilisation endangers National Security

The Carbon Sense Coalition today claimed that extreme conservationists were endangering Australia’s national security.

Climate Control is futile.  Be prepared or be sorry.

It’s time to stop wasting money trying to control the climate – this will be no more successful than slaughtering sacrificial goats, even if tax payers and electricity consumers are to be the goats.

Making Things still Matters

Climatism and green tape are strangling productive enterprise in Australia. We are starting to resemble an overhead in search of an income.

Green Car Policies are Defective and should be Recalled

The Carbon Sense Coalition today called for an end to the massive subsidies to the green car industry and to rich buyers of green car toys.

Electric Cars are Not Green

Electric cars are nifty, quiet and trendy, and don’t add hot gases to city air, but a forced conversion will neither save energy nor reduce the production of carbon dioxide.

A Carbon “Price” means a Carbon “Tax”

Carbon is the most useful substance on earth and there is already a price on every product containing carbon – coal and oil, bread and butter, beef and bacon, oil and ethanol, beer and whiskey, coffee and tea, cotton and wool, diesel and fire wood, methane and carbon dioxide, petrol and rubber - all are carbon products with an established market price.