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:

Produce Proof for Scare Forecasts December 4, 2009
Evidence that the 21 year solar cycle is the major determinant of rainfall variations
Exposing Temperature Trickery November 28, 2009
What has really happened to global temperatures?
Why Bother with Wong Lite? November 27, 2009
It’s all about the Cash November 21, 2009
The global warming campaign is not about climate, or pollution, or energy conservation – it is overwhelmingly about CASH
No Escape for Farmers November 15, 2009
Permanent exemption to farmers
Let’s Hear the Terms before we Surrender November 14, 2009
This group will export our wealth (at $7 billion per year)
Snouts in the Carbon Trough November 8, 2009
This is not about global pollution or global warming – it is about global energy taxes, global government and global redistribution
Carbon Capture & Burial – Monuments to Madness October 30, 2009
Carbon Capture and Burial is a non-viable idea
Carbon hypocrites, tax grabbers or power seekers? October 25, 2009
Ordinary activities requires the burning of tankers of carbon fuel for its success
Why Compromise is Defeat October 23, 2009
World Carbon Rationing, Tax and Redistribution Authority, administered by the United Nations
Big Nanny creates Gas Bubble October 18, 2009
The second silly gas policy promoted and subsidised the replacement of electric heating appliances with gas appliances
Puppets and Pay-offs in Carbonia October 10, 2009
Malcolm Turnbull says that business wants the “certainty” of the Ration-N-Tax Scheme
Warming Myths Exposed October 4, 2009
IPCC and the CSIRO should be challenged to justify their reckless and baseless climate scare-mongering
Solar Energy Hits the Dust September 26, 2009
Dust on a solar panel will reduce its efficiency by up to 50%
Green Jobs in the Dust September 24, 2009
Dust on a solar panel will reduce its efficiency by up to 50%
Ditch the Emissions Trading Scheme September 20, 2009
US Senate is not going to pass their Ration-N-Tax Scheme this year
ETS will kill Tourism, Transport and Trade September 13, 2009
Our politicians should be asked what effect these measures and our local Ration-N-Tax Schemes
“The Un-Natural disaster, made in Parliament” September 5, 2009
Ration-and-Tax Scheme Bill (the RATS Bill)
Barnaby is now the real leader of the Opposition. August 30, 2009
The Carbon Sense Coalition, Australia
The RAT Scheme and the RENT Scheme -  should both be rejected August 15, 2009
Green Power? - Consumers not Politicians should decide
Plans for Poverty August 12, 2009
Emissions are produced by everything we do – if we use electricity, steel, cement, timber, cars, trucks, planes, ships, trains
Audit needed on the Green Jobs Program August 9, 2009
Real jobs are those that produce unsubsidized goods or services, important green jobs in Australia
Concern on Carbon Costs of Camel Cull August 7, 2009
Shooting 1 Million camels
Wong horse knackered but . . . “Carbon Tax” is saddled and ready. July 20, 2009
carbon cap proposals are neither politically nor economically possible in Australia or the USA
Rudd supports resource destruction July 12, 2009
Carbon Capture and Storage Institute
“PM’s should pause and cool down”. July 8, 2009
United Nations, Climate change slush fund
Solar power – a subsidized appendage July 5, 2009
Solar means Cost Blowouts and Power Blackouts for Consumers
Australia’s EPA was negligent June 27, 2009
Gas of Life, CO2, carbon dioxide pollutant, Cap-N-Tax Scheme
We are not about to fry June 24, 2009
Professional purveyors of panic in the Global Warming Industry
An Open Letter to All Members of Parliament June 20, 2009
From the Carbon Sense Coalition