So it was actually pirates all this time: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pirate_Global_Warming_Graph.gif https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P

So it was actually pirates all this time: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pirate_Global_Warming_Graph.gif https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pirate_Global_Warm... Being a get-rich-quick alternative to whaling, piracy captured enough of the workforce to slow down the extinction of whales. I jest, of course, but it's fun to look for ways a mere correlation might be a causal relationship.