Viv Forbes
Viv Forbes is a geologist, investment analyst, student of climate cycles and history. He has spent decades studying all aspects of the geological history of the great Bowen Basin in Queensland. He has seen the evidence of massive volcanism in the ancient coastal ranges west of Mackay, the prolific marine fossil beds near Nebo, the enormous blown-sand deposits capping the hills, the extensive fossil forests of coal, and the evidence of very extensive layers of volcanic ash and more modern volcanic intrusions. Every one of these changes had big effects on sea levels and climate.
Viv is the founder of the Carbon Sense Coalition, non-executive Director of a small Australian company exporting coal to Asia and, with his wife Judy, a full-time farmer breeding meat cattle and sheep. He is author of “Our Sacred Land”, “Will It Make a Quid?” and many articles on politics, economics, carbon, climate and energy. Viv is also a winner of the Adam Smith Award (Australia) and author of Freedom (Germany).
Articles by Viv Forbes:
22 July 2024
4.3 MINS
Carbon-capture-and-underground-storage (CCUS) tops the list of silly schemes “to reduce man-made global warming”. The idea is to capture exhaust gases from power stations or cement plants, separate the CO2 from the other gases, compress it, and force it underground.
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12 July 2024
5 MINS
Batteries are NEVER a net generator of power – they just store energy generated elsewhere, incurring losses on charging and discharging. There has to be sufficient generating capacity to meet current demand while also recharging those batteries.
15 April 2024
5.2 MINS
The global demand for biofuels has led to deforestation, with the inevitable release of significant amounts of smoke and carbon dioxide. This is biofuel lunacy. There is no moral, scientific or economic justification to legislate ethanol folly.
29 March 2024
1.3 MINS
The government-owned ABC runs incessant ads. However, ABC ads promote the ABC, its own programs, and its black-red-green-rainbow political agenda. This agenda does not serve most of the net payers of tax who fund their propaganda.
11 December 2023
1.9 MINS
King What’s-his-name, John Kerry (the US Presidential Envoy for Controlling Climate) and Blackouts Bowen (Australia’s Minister for Climate Panics and Zero Energy) are determined to create an electricity crisis.
