Mallory was found wearing eight thin, fluffy, air-trapping layers.

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Every second, the world's smokestacks and cars pump 2.4 million pounds of the heat-trapping gas into the air.

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There are big bucks to be made in surgical and medical fabrics-gross profits for surgical packs, gowns, caps, masks, sponges, bandages and tape run 25% to 30%-and in allergen- and pollution-trapping filters for heating and air-conditioning (50% to 60%), both made by 3M.

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If carbon dioxide were black, we could actually see our atmosphere darkening with carbon dioxide, creating a heat-trapping blanket that is raising global air and ocean temperatures and threatening to dramatically rearrange our climate.

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