Vivek Roasts MSNBC Host for False Climate Change Claims

Sarah Arnold | August 30, 2023 10:00 PM

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy schooled climate alarmists spewing lies at MSNBC who argued that climate change has resulted in the deaths of two million people over the last 50 years.

Instead, the outspoke GOP hopeful said that evidence shows technology powered by fossil fuels has actually reduced the amount of climate-related deaths by 98 percent.

After Ramaswamy’s recent remark at the first GOP debate, Host Andrea Mitchell brought up the subject, claiming climate change is a “hoax.”

“The number of people who have died from hurricanes, tornadoes, heat waves, and other weather-related events in 1920, for every 100 that died then, two die today. And the reason why is more plentiful, abundant access to fossil fuels and technology powered by fossil fuels,” Ramaswamy said.

He continued to back up his claims, saying eight times as many people die from cold temperatures than warm ones, adding that the solution to temperature-related deaths is more access to fossil fuels.

“The earth is covered by more green surface area today than it was half a century or a century ago because carbon dioxide is plant food. And carbon dioxide as a percentage of the atmosphere is still a relative low to human history,” he continued. “Those are hard facts, and I think we have to acknowledge those facts when having this debate.”

Mitchell, however, continued to climb the climate change narrative, arguing that a so-called “expert” told her the hurricane currently ravaging through Florida is one of historic proportions.

“If a person from Arkansas who didn’t go to college offered one weather event as an N of 1 anecdote to help support the theory of global climate change, you’d laugh them off the stage as a rube,” Ramaswamy said. “You literally just quoted one person’s opinion with due respect. That’s exactly what you just quoted.”

He concluded his rant, telling Mitchell to “follow the data.”