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:
Aussie Bushfires Nurtured in National Parks
November 22, 2019
“Burn weeds, regrowth and undergrowth regularly in late winter, subject only to approval from immediate neighbours and the local fire warden.”
The Minister for Wasting Water, DAVID LITTLEPROUD, must resign
November 1, 2019
David Littleproud is responsible for a Government Authority that is denying the people their most basic of rights; that is access to water
Alarmist Overreach
October 24, 2019
The Rebellion against Reason
October 16, 2019
There is zero evidence in Earth's archives of an extinction event caused by high levels of carbon dioxide or by gradual global warming
European Climate Declaration There is no climate emergency, say 500 experts
September 25, 2019
Electricity in Australia – Switching from Success to Failure
September 23, 2019
Insist that all ACT homes and businesses live without subsidies from tax payers or consumers and without generating or importing any energy from coal, diesel, petrol or gas
Biofuels Baloney
August 16, 2019
If Greens want to reduce life-supporting CO2 (a foolish goal), they should be building houses out of old growth forests, not burning it.
Wasting Australia’s Resources
August 6, 2019
Foolish politicians, driven by extreme green ideology, are wasting Australia’s resources
Zero Emissions Australia?
August 1, 2019
The Dam Plan Failure
July 13, 2019
How to Create a Country with no Heart?
June 18, 2019
Stack and Pack the Coast
Cycles, not Carbon Dioxide, Control Climate
June 11, 2019
There is ZERO evidence in the climate record that carbon dioxide has a detectable effect on global temperatures
Sunshine State Gored
June 10, 2019
Al Gore: The Priest of Global Warming
The De-energised State
June 7, 2019
Green State in Australia
Australia’s Growing Dam Crisis
June 5, 2019
“The food we eat the water we drink and the power we use for most of our endeavours, are available only because previous generations invested their knowhow and money for the future. It is time this generation did the same.” --Ron Pike.
We Need a Power-Water Czar
May 28, 2019
Over-ride the death-by-delay tactics of extremist environmental and anti-development groups
The Day the Earth Moved
May 25, 2019
What a difference a day makes
The Australian Climate Alarm Election
May 22, 2019
We must also exit from the UN Paris and Kyoto “agreements”, and emphasize logic, maths and science in education
This carefully timed intervention in a closely fought Australian election by a prominent foreign politician is a blatant attempt to promote a damaging climate agenda already rejected in the USA.
What replaces Diesel?
May 14, 2019
Green Heaven
May 13, 2019
The Mad Mad Maths of Australian Emissions Targets
May 12, 2019
The Snowy 2 Fraud
May 12, 2019
Malcolm Turnbull’s “Snowy 2” debases a great name – “the Snowy Scheme”
Back to the Medieval Green World
May 11, 2019
Without reliable electricity and diesel-powered farm machinery and transport trucks, cities are un-sustainable. In Green-topia 90% of us people will need to go
Flood Plains are for Floods
May 11, 2019
People should be free to build houses beside picturesque rivers but they must put up with the occasional flood.
Hydro-carbons Beat Biofuels on all counts
May 9, 2019
Following Foolish Forecasts
May 6, 2019
Why Big Miners turned Green
May 4, 2019
Fish and Pine Chips
May 2, 2019
Navy Going Nuclear?
May 2, 2019