Lack of Pirates causes Global Warming

I was bumming around the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster website, when I noticed a little graph depicting the relation between decreasing numbers of (non-IP) Pirates and increasing Global Temperature. This is an important piece of data that has been over looked in the Global Warming debate. I think an immediate government program to increase the number of pirates must be put into place!


In all seriousness, the graph is a nice and amusing way to illustrate how statistics can be used to show all sorts of nonsense, in ways that are believable to those without a clear understanding of the issue.