November 20, 2008
Putting the 'Al' in "Causality'
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monsters:
You may be interested to know that global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking numbers of Pirates since the 1800s. For your interest, I have included a graph of the approximate number of pirates versus the average global temperature over the last 200 years. As you can see, there is a statistically significant inverse relationship between pirates and global temperature.
The science is settled. Hat-tip: Samizdata, where Samizdat Michael Jennings points out "the clear increase in the number of pirates indicates that global warming is receding as a problem. This is good to see." Deleterious Anthropogenic Warming of the Globe Posted by John Kranz at November 20, 2008 4:42 PM
Do these figures include privateers? And if so, could the case be made that privateering was an early attempt by government to control global warming through the use of state-sponsored restocking of the pirate population?
My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of possibilities that the recent spate of Somali piracy is actually orchestrated by Al Gore to combat rising temperatures. Is this a part of the Kyoto protocols?
Posted by: Keith at November 20, 2008 7:09 PMI dunno, but somebody had better go back and get a sh*t-load of dimes.
Posted by: Boulder Refugee at November 20, 2008 7:34 PM | What do you think? [2]