Reality Check...

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"The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that."

Ted Turner, founder of CNN.

"We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals." Ted Turner.

Temperature Station Readings in Warrenton, Mo.,

Source: NASA/GISS.

• Most recent 20-year average (1990-2009) of annual temperatures in Warrenton, MO: 12.32o C.
• Warrenton's 20-year average temperature 70 years prior (1920-1939): 12.45o C.
• Temperature trend in Warrenton, Mo., since 1930 (1930-2008): down 0.003o C per year.
• Temperature trend in Warrenton, Mo., since 1999 (1999-2008): down 0.11o C per year.

Source: Author's calculations using NASA/GISS data ("trend" is linear regression slope as calculated by spreadsheet).
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