Warmists lament: 'No mention of global warming [in debates] for the first time since Congress was briefed on the threat in 1988' -- 'The backlash from anti-government conservatives led Obama to downplay his green agenda, delaying and weakening environmental regulations...Romney, meanwhile, responded to the rise of the Tea Party by backtracking on his earlier support for climate action as governor of Massachusetts. He also called for phasing out subsidies for the wind industry'