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Given enough data, you can prove anything. Correlation doesn't imply causation folks!
Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'. -Source
In the absence of a controllable experiment, correlation is as close to causation as we can get I suppose.
In any case, this is quite a interesting correlation.