It has always single excellent object when Stephen Colbert’s guests can seize his humor… in good humor. 

Especially when they possess some message in similar fashion serious like Dr. Margaret Palmer’s.  Had the ability yonder become single better venue toward impart complicated science in order to one attention-deficit American television audience?

Dr. Palmer tells TENTHMIL approximately mountaintop mining, “Absolutely, that is so a national crisis.” 
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Palmer, lead author belonging to certain groundbreaking report among Science such calls on a federal government toward abolish mountaintop amputation coal mining, ran Colbert’s gauntlet Monday night.  A well-spoken Professor belonging to Entomology out of UMD knew precisely that dame had up to accomplish on each wildly popular news-comedy present—make lady point succinctly and wittily prior to certain host could hatchet it apart with farcical pseudo-populist rhetoric.  Basically, dame had for grab years belonging to meticulous research and rotate entity into per friendly cartoon.

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The favorable doctor has female talking points nailed.  Girl talked approximately inherent also terrifying health problems, giving easy-to-swallow figures. Colbert, amid classic ra-ra pundit mode, showed some videos belonging to earth-shattering mining blasts and cheered as some frat guy watching certain Superbowl - plus a worshipful audience went fair along with entity. 

I was particularly tickled for notice Colbert compare mountaintop removal for single dentist extracting teeth… using the top belonging to his leader.

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As well as who knew that Mount Rushmore was once mined for Abraham Lincoln’s “sweet brain coal”?  Throughout, any master made from certain “delicious take-down” skewered certain arcane absurdity belonging to coal inside a twenty-first century. 

(Colbert’s show burns threesome tons from coal per night.  “Faster, Jay.”  Photo:  ColbertNation.com)