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Private enterprise is going to create jobs cleaning up toxic waste? Where's the profit in that?

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I was under the impression that what Utah needs more of for plants to really thrive is fresh water.

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Just be sure to <a href="https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=L7SkrYF8lCU" target="_blank">keep feeding</a> them.

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Hmm, there are a couple things that have changed a little bit since the Dinosaurs were "doing quite well."

Including the entire evolution of, oh, just a little thing like <i>all the mammals</i>, and the decomposition of then extant plant life into the hydrocarbons that pay this dicknose's campaign contributions, and burning of which continue to degrade this planet's ecosystem.

Just own up to your craven attempts to enable polluters to continue their polluting, Jerry Anderson. It's probably easier than coming up with apologist brontosaurus shit like this.

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Xenon is perfectly innocuous, but yeah, radon is definitely less than noble in its intentions.

I'm wondering if "when dinosaurs roamed the earth" means 6,000 years ago to this fuckwit. And I believe we're headed for pre-dinosaur CO2 levels, when ferns roamed the arctic and antarctic

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Why must you slander houseplants so?

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Nah . . . <a href="https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=52UAEQfMTtU" target="_blank">SF6</a>. Brimstone is <i>so</i> handy to have around. And it's much more plentiful around here.

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I don't think he was referring to the kind of plants growing out of the ground. He was referring to the kind he gets big campaign donations from for building them in his district.

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Industrial or digestive emissions?

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The good news: he's no longer "teaching" science. (Scary thought, innit?)

The bad news: if he moves on the House of Representatives (morons are allowed to vote), the GOP will immediately put him on the Science and Technology Committee, where he and Paul Broun will get along swimmingly.

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