More Pirates, Less Global Warming . Wait, What?

An interesting correlation was found by the parody religion FSM (Flying Spaghetti Monster). Deducting causation here would be madness. Over the 18th and 19th century, piracy, the one with the boats, not the one with the files and the sharing, slowly died out. At the same time, possibly within a natural trend and / or for reasons of increased industrial activity, the global temperature started increasing. If you plot the number of pirates and the global temperature in a coordinate system, you find a relatively strong correlation between the two. The more pirates there are, the colder the planet is. Here's the corresponding formula and graph:

T = 16 - 0.05 · P0.33

with T being the average global temperature and P the number of pirates. Given enough pirates (about 3.3 million to be specific), we could even freeze Earth. But of course nobody in the right mind would see causality at work here, rather we have two processes, the disappearance of piracy and global warming, that happened to occur at the same time. So you shouldn't be too surprised that the recent rise of piracy in Somalia didn't do anything to stop global warming.