No. While it's undeniable that the science on climate change is still extremely uncertain, the most comprehensive study to date has found general agreement that man-made climate change is happening.

But as you can read in this article, even if you're right, our proposal is still a good idea for the following five reasons:

2. The carbon tax is an effort to address an environmental issue with a market-based, efficient and equitable policy. If successfully implemented, it will set positive precedents for respect of free-market ideas regarding other environmental issues as well.

3. Undoubtedly, most of the scientists that you think are doubting "global warming" are really only questioning anthropogenic global warming. All that means is that we can't really do much to stop it. But because our carbon tax uses money to adapt to climate change, it's simply the most cost-effective way of dealing with that reality.

4. We also propose the carbon tax should be accompanied by an across-the-board tax cut, so it won't harm the economy.

5. The carbon tax creates a market incentive for alternative fuels, so that we can reduce our dangerous and expensive dependence on foreign oil. Even if you don't believe in global warming, you can believe in that.

First of all, we support an income tax cut to accompany the carbon tax, in order to soften its impact on Americans.

Second, the carbon tax is required in order to make polluters pay for the true social cost of their CO2 emissions - simply assessing compensation for the best estimate of the damage to their fellow citizens' property. Unlike every other tax, this isn't some arbitrary levy to fund unnecessary bureaucracy. It's about making people pay for the harm they cause everyone else - the Golden Rule in its purest form.