Man who makes fun of climate change when it's cold announces 4-month creative hiatus

CALGARY, AB—For years, Brian Hodge has been carving out his place as Canada's preeminent guy who makes a joke about how there's no such thing as climate change every time it's slightly cold outside. But the prolific Facebook poster and article commenter has now announced that he'll be taking a four-month "creative hiatus" that is unrelated to current weather conditions.

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Known for such insightful barbs as "six inches of snow on my driveway this morning – don't tell climate change!"; "person wearing a jacket here at the beach, but wah wah, climate change" and "climate change protesters had to light a barrel fire at night, because climate change (cry-laugh emoji)", Hodge says he simply needs time to recharge so he can "keep smacking down the Suzukis".

"As we all know, climate change theories hinge entirely on the premise that it's always hot out, everywhere, all the time. That's just what climate change means: everywhere is already hot," explained Hodge in a recent statement about the hiatus. "So if it's ever anything less than actively hot, at any time of the year, I'm there to point out that inconsistency in a mocking and hilarious way that sends lefties and scientists reeling."

"But every now and again, the time comes to refocus your creative energies and incubate some new material, and for me that just happens to be this summer and most previous summers and springs," Hodge continues.

Quick to refute claims that the timing of his hiatus has anything to do with the often unbearable summer temperatures of recent years, Hodge insists that "summer is just when people take breaks" – and that spending the next four months in an air-conditioned basement in his underwear is "just part of the writing process."

Hodge has yet to give an official date as to when he'll return with his patented brand of autumn-centric climate change roasts, though long-time fans of his work say that it generally happens the same time as it did the year before, except slightly later.

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