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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:

Warming Myths Exposed

The Carbon Sense Coalition today claimed that recent climate changes exposed the complete fallacy of the man-made global warming myth.
- Sunday, October 4, 2009

Solar Energy Hits the Dust

The green coalition in Canberra recently decreed that by 2020, just a decade away, Australia must produce 20% of its power using feeble energy sources such as sunbeams and sea breezes.
- Saturday, September 26, 2009

Green Jobs in the Dust

In the brave green Australia of 2020, just a decade away, Canberra has mandated that about half the Simpson desert will be covered in solar panels.
- Thursday, September 24, 2009

Ditch the Emissions Trading Scheme

It is time for Australian politicians to ditch the Emissions Trading Scheme and dismantle the expensive Global Warming empire they have created.
- Sunday, September 20, 2009

ETS will kill Tourism, Transport and Trade

Emissions trading schemes proposed for the western world will guarantee another global financial crisis for tourism, transport and world trade.
- Sunday, September 13, 2009


Barnaby is now the real leader of the Opposition.

The Chairman of the Carbon Sense Coalition, Mr Viv Forbes, today called for Liberals who oppose the ALP Ration-N-Tax Scheme Bill (the RATS Bill) to leave the Liberals and join the Nationals.
- Sunday, August 30, 2009


Plans for Poverty

The Turnbull decarbonisation plan aims to reduce 2020 emissions to 90% of the 2000 level. But we have moved on from the year 2000. To get back to 90% of 2000 would require a 20% cut on today’s activities. Moreover, the population by 2020 will be at least 30% above that in 2000. So the Turnbull carbon cuts will need to be more than 33% per capita.
- Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Audit needed on the Green Jobs Program

The Chairman of the Carbon Sense Coalition, Mr Viv Forbes, today called for an audit by the Productivity Commission into PM Rudd’s Green Jobs Plan.
- Sunday, August 9, 2009



Rudd supports resource destruction

Australia’s PM Rudd, Santa Clause of the Global Warming Industry, wants to waste another $100 M per year of other people’s money on his Carbon Capture and Storage Institute.
- Sunday, July 12, 2009

“PM’s should pause and cool down”.

George Brown and Kevin Rudd want to stimulate the climate conscience of the under-developed world with bribes of $122 billion PER YEAR stolen from western taxpayers and consumers (Aust 8 July).
- Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Solar power – a subsidized appendage

- Carbon Sense Australian electricity consumers can look forward to soaring charges for electricity and blackouts if state and federal politicians continue to undermine the power grid by mandating and subsidizing solar power generation.
- Sunday, July 5, 2009

Australia’s EPA was negligent

Australia’s EPA (Environmental Protection Authority) has been negligent in listing carbon dioxide (CO2) as a pollutant without conducting an independent public review of the scientific evidence to support that decision.
- Saturday, June 27, 2009

We are not about to fry

The professional purveyors of panic in the Global Warming Industry continue to scare impressionable children and politicians with tall tales. Their most gruesome story is that earth is about to reach a tipping point, causing runaway warming, after which we all fry.
- Wednesday, June 24, 2009


Warmists are Eco-vandals.

We must assess the environmental damage caused by global warming alarmists.
- Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Kill the RAT

The “Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme” starts with a lie and goes downhill from there.
- Tuesday, June 16, 2009

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