Dwindling Pirates and Global Disasters...

I just received an email with a link to a very hilarious commentary on science teaching in the public schools. I found the following comments particularly amusing and noteworthy:

"...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..."