As usual the main point is being missed in your post. There is always a carbon cycle, including fires, volcanoes, trees, water, animals etc. The problem comes from the additional carbon coming from the rapid burning of fossil fuels and adding their content into the biosphere. This is the extra carbon moving into the cycle. Deforestation also adds carbon into the cycle which 'wood' otherwise be confined within the vegetation, not to mentioned being consumed for growth. The oceans disolve a lot of the carbon and carbon dioxide to keep a semblence of balance, but this is having its own effect down where we rarely look. (and the view from your fishing rock will not tell you all that needs to be known on that subject) I noticed your views on ocean levels not rising noticeably. The sea level rise will come mainly from simple thermal expsansion in the early stages of global warming. It is not until land based ice caps start to melt significantly that sea level rise will accelerate. But your simple observations seem to convince you that scientists are conspiratorial idiots and finance men are plotting to make their 'motza' from trading in carbon credits. Nothing I say will change your concrete views. Are your objections to science religious? They seem determinedly dogmatic. In the above post and elswhere lies the answers to your query about "the carbon tax being for what?"