"Another warming story doesn't hold up"

Here.

Excerpt:

The Times has just reported that duck hunting in Missouri is going through changes due to a warming climate in Missouri...
...
Here is the data as supplied by the United States Historical Climatology Network. What sticks out rather dramatically is that the most recent 50 years were considerably cooler than the previous 50 years. Missouri didn’t warm up over the last half century -- if anything it cooled.
...
...In fact all of the ten hottest years in Missouri, since 1900, were prior to 1955.

Routinely the New York Times makes claims about temperatures in specific localities rising in recent years in stories about global warming. Not one of such stories that I’ve read bothered to check the historical data.

Don't New York Times writers have access to Google?