Let's start by plotting the monthly temperatures in Ireland in 1958-2022.

The LOWESS trendline shows a clear increase from 9.5°C to 10.4°C, but the temperature varies a lot month-to-month.
Let's try to compensate for that by averaging the temperature over each year.

Now the trend is far more clear.
Can we find a correlation between this temperature trend, and the rate at which glaciers are melting?

This is an overlay of the two graphs we're trying to find a correlation between. Both show a rather pronounced upward trend.
But can we show this correlation in numbers?
A great tool for this kind of analysis is the Pearson correlation coefficient.

Plugging the two datasets into the correlation function, the resulting correlation coefficint is 56.78%.

This shows that there is a strong correlation between the temperature in Ireland, and the rate at which glaciers are melting globally!

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