Pardon us if the non-US world regards the concept of a solution to global warming coming at the hand of a US politician with a huge degree of scepticism.
As for Nader - if it wasn't for him being an effective Republican agent the world might have had Gore instead of Bush and the US might have an ecological policy it could be proud of.

Look back at the numbers of the 2000 election. Nader was pulling votes from both the republicans and democrats. In Florida he pulled many more republican votes that democratic. Enough with the Nader bashing based on erroneous, editorialized perceptions.

Nader is an economic populist. That's not the same as an environmentalist. He whines about the high price of gas, when the economic facts show the US pays the lowest price per gallon in the world.

He complains about evil corporations, when the fact is that corporate R&D is far more likely to provide solutions to world problems than government undertaking the same thing.

Nader was hardly the first to talk about global warming, I remember discussing it in my (admittedly advanced) high school, and I graduated in 1984. The first US government panel on the issue was in the mid-60s. Svante Arhennius posited the theoretical existence of global warming in the 1890s.

Back to your giant toadstool, Ralph.

Ralph Nader is a good person... A good, if not effective, politician, believe it or not. But he did hand over the 2000 election to the republicans... Comon... prioritize...

thank the lord you are spreading your democracy, resenting anything that contests a two party, corporate/oil/automobile funded election. don't forget fellow huggers that it was Gore that headed the US delegation in Kyoto, who played games and chose not to sign. you know bush would happily have signed it whereas you must look into gore, who with seemingly good intentions, did not sign it.

re: rob - have a look at the most significant contributors to GW, check whether the most significant clean tech developments have come from corporate R&D dept's or fairly new start up's. check gov't initiatives abroad (esp norway & sweden), and lastly read some George Monbiot. after this process i would be very interested to see if you have the same conclusions. to peace and longevity....

Gore could only act after he had freed himself from special interests. Who knows what he would have done as president.

"you know bush would happily have signed it"

Sigh... What an IDIOT!!!

"He complains about evil corporations, when the fact is that corporate R&D is far more likely to provide solutions to world problems than government undertaking the same thing."

I forgot about that... corporate R&D solutions...

Thank you Monsanto for Round Up ready crops!

Thank you Dupont for all those chemicals that enrich our lives and having the forethought to make sure our newborns have a heavy toxic load right out of the womb!

Thank you W.R. Grace for those wonderfully little specks that help miners and their families reach an early grave!

Solutions to what?

Nader didn't cost the 200o election. Gore is his own canidate, he lost Tenessee, won the popular vote, lost electoral votes, election was rigged. Stop blaiming Nader.

I'm sick of Democrats claiming all of Nader's supporters. Hey, Dmeocrats, take a look in the mirror. The Democratic party candidates tend to be pretty moderate. Not everyone is moderate, Democrats. To be frank, I hate the Dmeocratic party about as much as I hate the republican party. They harm democracy with their monpoly of politics. It's ridiculous how blind the masses are to it too.

I'm voting Nader. Screw Obama. Screw Hillary. Screw McCain.

Dear Nader Supporters,

We don't want you. Please go over to Huckabee. His old-timey thinking is just what you love.

-Democrats

Nader handed the 2000 election over the Republicans??

Then who handed the 2004 elction over the the Republicans?