Global Warming is Bad...
 

for piracy that is!

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Found this while do some homework for my Environmental Studies class.

Stop global warming, save the pirates !
or
Prevent piracy, increase global warming !

may you be touched by his noodley appendage

...only 17 pirates in 2000... :confused:let me check if Sumalia is still part of Planet Earth...;)

You'd expect that as the oceans rise, taking more of the Earth's surface, there would be more pirates- not fewer.

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Not to mention the Russian Arctic, and other places where Greenpeace et. al. carry out 'protest' actions that arguably are piracy under the law.

And the many other places where locals board & rob yachts... You can get any correlation you want, when you select which data to include.

I thought about that to, not sure which 17 people there counting. Maybe Caribbean pirates like history's famous piracy location?

I'd bet if/when they start to rise to an alarming level, you will see more piratical forms.

Now that's just a whole nother ball game! The question is where do you go from piracy to terrorists? They're not stealing, they are destroying and mutilating.

On a more serious note, I once learned from a documentary that contractors are real pirates. I believe that it was called "The Flintstones."

Yes, the Flintstones, that is how we know dinosaurs and people coexisted too.

Raquel Welch did that too. :cool:

There is someone I wouldn't mind doing some coexisting with.

Yeah, that was my point: you can get any stupid correlation you want, if you carefully select the data - as for instance choosing exactly who you'll define as a 'pirate' - to produce the results you want.

I remember an episode of "Square One" where the team on Mathnet investigated claims that eating chuckberries caused acne and determined that the chuckberry eaters were teenage boys while the control group was old people.

That is what you are saying, right? :)

I'm not sure if that is exactly what jamesqf is saying, but that is what my guest speaker was saying. He was showing that even though there is a correlation, doesn't mean that one affects the other or vice-versa. He also talked about randomizing things, so you don't get mistakes like that. Both groups should have been mixed with old and young people.

It sounds to me like your scenario was more of a mistake, where as my scenario has 'rules' about who a pirate is, which is more of what he was alluding to, I think.

Actually, it is no mistake. The origins of that graph are from a school kid in Kansas who was protesting the teaching of "intelligent design" and even blossomed into "talk like a pirate day"! (my favorite holiday apart from towel day).

Correlation != causation, we are here and that is about all we can say about it with any authority.

Open Letter To Kansas School Board « Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Since the OP has trolled the bait through our pond, we now know where it originated. Thanks for exposing the bait. :thumbup:

Also: I didn't think pirates obeyed any rules. If they did, they weren't really pirates...:rolleyes:

BTW, when is "towel day? Maybe I could appreciate it and celebrate it. :)

please don't refer to my sacred artifacts as "bait" ;)

Towel Day

I think you guys might have misunderstood me. Neither scenario (mine or the one Xist offered) was a mistake in the fact that we brought either one to the table, nor the information presented was a mistake. The scenario that Xist brought up had a mistake by the investigators. That is what I was talking about. They should have randomized the people in the groups to eliminate any errors in data.

The 'rules' I was alluding to had nothing to do with pirate's actions. The rule was whatever rule the original creator (Bobby Henderson) of the graph used to determine what a 'pirate' is, which determined how many there actually are.

Yes, they need to look/act like "stereotypical" pirates to have any effect on global warming... It isn't talk like a Somalian day, sheesh!

Here you go...

Somalia – Lots of Pirates, low Carbon Emissions « Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

We have stop stop and think about the world we leave for our children. I can't imagine my children's-children growing up in a world without raping and pillaging. "THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN!!!!"

...it's drivin' me nuts.

Would it help if we offered you a towel?

Excuse the digression, but what the heck is a chuckberry?

Sort of, yes. Same principle, in that they're selecting groups to get the results the want.

...euphemistically referred to as "...cherry picking..."

"you need to pick cherries to make cherry pie"

... fixed ...

Uh, which: charts or tarts (especially considering the British humor)?


For Arragonis: "Quid, inquam, ego non" -- a simile' with your quote.

"You need to pick cherries to make cherry pirates."

Sorry, I'll get me coat...

Arrr arr arr

...the "eye patch" hinders my reading abilities and the "hook" raises hell with my keyboard typing!

The wooden leg is organic though, and recyclable.

Also make sure you know which side the hook is on when you get an itch.

That's why I ended up with the patch!! My eye was itchy and .... POP!

arrr jim laaaaaad