President Obama is justifiably afraid to alienate swing voters in the presidential debates by doubling down on discredited global warming claims, but global warming alarmism is indeed the pink elephant in the room every time Obama is forced to defend his suppression of affordable conventional energy.

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At the same time, the contribution provided by British and French aircraft carriers and German radar suppression, among other things, has been more than a token.

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