Environmental conservation should be based on science,
Couldn't agree more. So how come you start at science, then...
Introducing the Carbon Tax is sound Public Policy and a positive step to mitigate the effects of man-made global warming.
POW!!!!
You take a flying leap into the faith-based church of anthropogenic global warming. Where questioning the IPCC deity is heresy and debating the subject is blasphemy.
So, IF CO2 was toxic (it's not) AND reducing it's concentration in the atmosphere is a good thing (probably not) AND the reduction of CO2 would consequently lower global temperatures (no proof of that), WHAT EXACTLY IS THE CARBON TAX DOING TO ACHIEVE THAT END?