Do the climateers want to regulate carbon or carbon dioxide?

Because carbon is a solid and carbon dioxide is a gas.

The AGW crowd needs to get its story straight.  Does carbon cause climate change too, even though it isn't in the atmosphere if it is only carbon?

You see the problem here is that the words get redefined.  What was understood is getting redefined constantly.  You go from carbon dioxide to carbon meaning that the effort is to end all fossil fuels, which isn't necessary if all you want to do is to eliminate carbon dioxide only.  Because there is more than one way to get energy out the carbon based fossil fuels.  The other way doesn't need to cause carbon dioxide releases into the atmosphere.  If you want to regulate carbon, then it is no longer carbon dioxide, the words got redefined.