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If environmental trends in Western nations continue on a positive track, someday children may ask, Mommy, what was pollution? But between that day and ours stands the ultimate environmental problem: global warming. Fighting an artificial greenhouse effect is the greatest of environmental challenges, because the cure will not be possible unless almost every nation on Earth participates. In the last century, global temperatures have risen one degree Fahrenheit. Some scientists remain skeptical about projected future warming, but an oft-heard claim, that the idea of global warming is being promot