Viv Forbes

Earth is not a Greenhouse

15 October 2022 8:00 am

Warming alarmists claim: ‘Earth’s atmosphere acts like the glass in a greenhouse.’ This is false. Glass is largely transparent to…

Ruled by fools

19 September 2022 8:00 am

Australia has become a nation ruled by fools. We have surrendered power over every aspect of our lives and industry…

The plague of the green elephants

30 August 2022 4:00 am

Legend says that if you displeased the King of Siam, he would give you a white elephant. These rare and…

Labor-Greens marriage produces forty new bills!

4 August 2022 4:00 am

There is an ominous buzz in the new Australian Parliament where Albo and the Greens are planning to pass 40…

Volcanoes, oceans, and weather

27 July 2022 4:00 am

Despite Green/ABC propaganda, recent Australian floods were not caused by coal, cattle, or cars. Weather is driven by winds; solar…

The greenest lemmings in the world

22 June 2022 12:00 pm

Australia’s new ALP/Green/Teal government has a Zero Emissions plan, putting them on track to be the victor in the Great…

Renewable or reliable? Energy cannot be both

19 June 2022 6:00 am

Australia’s new ALP government has gigantic green energy plans to be funded by electricity consumers and taxpayers. They promise (with…

Planned chaos in Australia's power generation

11 June 2022 7:00 am

Politicians are inviting electricity chaos in Australia by promoting the closure of coal-fired power stations, but also by promoting more…

Australia's green gamble

4 June 2022 12:40 pm

Australians took a great green gamble in the recent election. Green millionaires and other left-wing activists supported slick campaigns promoting…

Hydrogen – the magic rainbow gas

21 May 2022 9:30 am

If you believe in the tooth fairy, or vote Green, you probably believe that hydrogen is the magic rainbow gas…

The strong stink of an election on the nose

15 May 2022 9:00 am

The Liberals cannot be trusted to control Australia without adult supervision, but to replace them with an ALP/Green/ABC/Teal government would…

It's time to vote for change

5 May 2022 9:00 am

Politics has drifted a long way left since the days of Menzies and Fadden. Starting with Gough Whitlam, Malcolm Fraser,…

Same garbage – different flies

2 April 2022 4:00 am

The Australian Budget was a profound disappointment. Not one useless law was repealed, not one tax was abolished, and not…

Power not poverty

16 March 2022 3:00 pm

‘The past was green and fuzzy – the future is black and ominous.’ – Richard Sebrof The green fairy-tale is…

Stop these ‘fuelish’ policies

4 March 2022 9:00 am

‘God was on the side of the nation that had the oil.’ – Prof. Wakimura, Tokyo Imperial University. Russia is…

The stampede of green lemmings

24 February 2022 9:00 am

No country on Earth relies entirely on wind and solar energy, but Australian politicians aim to achieve this miracle. They…

The destruction of Australia’s grasslands

15 February 2022 10:49 am

It’s the season for green-money showers in Australia – the Coral Community just got one billion dollars of green bribes…

Australia’s giant green gamble on solar energy toys

7 January 2022 12:00 pm

By the time solar energy reaches Earth’s surface, it is spread very thin – even midday sunshine will not boil…

Whirling ‘Triffids’ are now cluttering our coastlines

29 December 2021 4:00 am

‘I saw them now with a disgust that they had never roused in me before. Horrible alien things which some…

The electric highway – a ‘fuelish’ policy

8 December 2021 12:00 pm

Scott Morrison has had another green brainwave – spend a zillion dollars to build Australia’s electric/hydrogen highway. Naturally, this ‘Fuelish…

Send the Glasgow climate and canapés conference to Iceland

3 October 2021 10:16 am

November’s COP 26 meeting should be shifted from Glasgow in Scotland to Reykjavík in Iceland. Twenty-five previous meetings of this…

All cows are green

4 September 2021 4:43 pm

Growing trees need three essentials – radiant energy from the sun, CO2 and rain from the atmosphere, and nutrients and…

Hydrogen hype and hurdles

8 July 2021 3:00 pm

Green Hydrogen is the latest “energy” fad from the global warming warriors. It is mainly hot air. Hydrogen will never…

Flood plains are for – gasp – floods

25 March 2021 5:22 pm

Natural flood plains form where floods spread silt and mud in river valleys. Being flat, fertile, picturesque and usually supplied…

All meat is plant based

16 December 2020 1:32 pm

Wandering recently through an arcade popular with the green smoothie set, I saw a sign boasting: “Plant Based Meat”. Someone…