Ex-NASA scientist hits back at 'Neanderthal' Conservatives

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7. Yes and no

Sometimes people use the term "carbon tax" to refer to any method of putting a price on carbon.

However, in this context, it refers to a particular method of putting a price on carbon.

There were two proposed systems for reducing co2 emissions, called "cap and trade" and "tax and dividend".

Cap and trade had the most political support, and was the only one which had a chance of being enacted.

Hansen was outspoken against cap and trade, and in favor of tax and dividend.

The Liberal Party of Canada supported cap and trade, and was against tax and dividend.

http://www.liberal.ca/newsroom/news-release/reality-check-liberals-raise-taxes-families/

Michael Ignatieff and the Liberal Party do not support a carbon tax and will not introduce one. Instead, “We will quickly put in place a cap-and-trade system. Ideally, such a system would become global. It must be verifiable. It must be binding. And it must lead to absolute reductions in the amount of carbon pollution we spew into the atmosphere.” (Michael Ignatieff’s Speech on Liberal environment, climate change and clean energy jobs plan, Laval Quebec, November 29, 2009)