There's been big climate news coming out of Canada in recent days, with 25,000 concerned Canadians taking to the streets of Quebec City this past weekend and calling on their leaders to take action on climate. On Monday, Ontario joined Quebec's cap and trade plan, which means the two biggest provinces in Canada now have a price on carbon. Finally, premiers from across Canada are holding a summit to discuss what role provinces can play leading up to the UN climate change conference in Paris, with the Ontario-Quebec agreement spurring rumors that a province-led agreement may take shape in the absence of federal action.
So how are deniers responding to our northern neighbor's major policy progress? Basically, by saying, “but… look at the snow!" WUWT and Daily Caller both have very short pieces focusing on how it was cold in Canada during the protest, because there was still snow on the ground.
Daily Caller's Bastasch fails to mention the major Ontario-Quebec agreement, and chooses instead to say, “the 'Gore effect' has struck again," because it was cold (44°F) during Quebec's climate march. The "Gore effect" is supposed to satirically suggest a causal relationship between unseasonably cold weather and climate activism, but really it's just what deniers use when they have nothing but a day's cold weather to use as a pushback against the rising tide of climate change concern and activism.
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