{"id":2018804,"date":"2023-08-31T23:11:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T03:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ramaswamy-makes-legacy-media-rounds-blasting-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T23:14:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T03:14:26","slug":"ramaswamy-makes-legacy-media-rounds-blasting-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ramaswamy-makes-legacy-media-rounds-blasting-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramaswamy Criticizes Climate Change in Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Framaswamy-makes-legacy-media-rounds-blasting-climate-change%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2018804&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Republican Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy Slams \u2062&#8221;Climate \u2062Change&#8221; Narrative as a\u200b Hoax<\/h2>\n<p>Republican presidential candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/vivek-ramaswamy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vivek Ramaswamy<\/a> has been\u2064 making the legacy media rounds slamming the \u201cclimate change\u201d narrative, deeming\u2062 the latest pundit talking point\u2064 a \u201choax\u201d after \u200chitting the issue during last week\u2019s \u2064GOP debate.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamay argued during an interview\u200c with \u200bMSNBC host Andrea Mitchell that \u200ctechnology powered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ramaswamy-makes-legacy-media-rounds-blasting-climate-change\/\" title=\"Ramaswamy Criticizes Climate Change in Media\">fossil fuels significantly reduced \u2062climate-related deaths<\/a> after Mitchell attempted\u2064 to corner\u200d him for saying that more people are dying from bad \u2062climate change policies than from climate change itself.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell cited a recent \u2063U.N. agency report that said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-doubling-spending-to-prepare-for-hurricanes-storms\/\" title=\"Biden Doubling Spending to Prepare for Hurricanes, Storms\">extreme weather events<\/a>, supposedly compounded\u2064 by climate\u200d change, caused the death of two million people in the last 50 years. But \u2063the GOP presidential hopeful countered the claim, saying, \u201cClear evidence\u200c that the\u2063 number of climate \u200bdisaster-related deaths is <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/30\/deaths-in-climate-disasters-declined-99-from-a-century-ago\/\">down\u200d by 98%<\/a> over\u2064 the last century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe number of people who died of hurricanes, tornadoes, heatwaves, and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/climate-expert-weather-related-deaths-hit-record-low-in-2021\/\" title=\"Climate Expert: Weather-Related Deaths Hit Record Low in 2021\">weather-related events<\/a> in 1920 \u2014 for every 100 that died then, two die today,\u201d he\u200b said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd \u2062the reason why is more plentiful, abundant access \u200dto fossil fuels\u2062 and technology powered\u200b by fossil fuels,\u201d \u2063Ramaswamy \u2064continued.\u200c \u201cI can also tell you today\u2062 it is a hard fact. \u200cNone \u200bof \u2062these things are disputed. Eight times \u2063as many people die of cold temperatures than \u200ddie of warm ones. The\u200c right answer to all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-we-want-to-make-the-world-better-the-fearmongering-has-to-end\/\" title=\"End fearmongering to make the world better.\">temperature-related deaths<\/a> is more\u200c plentiful abundant access to fossil fuels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As highlighted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/joshuacohen\/2023\/07\/19\/excessive-summer-heat-can-kill-but-extreme-cold-causes-more-fatalities\/?sh=388800c31d88\">Forbes<\/a>, a 2021 \u200dstudy published \u2063in <em>The Lancet Planetary\u2063 Health <\/em>found that \u201cfor\u2062 every death linked to heat, nine are connected\u200b to cold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell then\u2063 pointed to Hurricane Idalia as an example, citing\u200b former St. Petersburg \u200bMayor Bill Foster,\u200b who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/article\/tampa-bay-serious-idalia-flooding-dodges-direct-hit\/44965120#:~:text=from%20flooded%20homes.-,%22Make%20no%20mistake%2C%20this%20hurricane%20left%20its%20mark%2C%22,could%20have%20been%20much%20worse.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly<\/a> said he\u2019s\u200b never seen anything like\u2063 the\u200d natural disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Before Mitchell could move forward \u2064in her\u2062 interview with Ramaswamy,\u2063 the\u200b 38-year-old Republican interjected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAndrea, may I respectfully \u200coffer a response to that? And I mean this with due respect,\u201d he said. \u201cIf someone on the other side or \u2063an\u200d uneducated person from Arkansas who didn\u2019t go to college and offered one weather event as an\u200c end of one anecdote\u200b to help support a theory of global climate change, you\u2019d laugh them off the stage as a rube for saying\u2062 they \u200ddon\u2019t follow data. The same shoe \u2063has \u2062to fit\u200b the other foot. \u2064Follow the actual data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mitchell said, \u201cI\u2019m not talking \u200cabout one person\u2019s opinion \u2014 we talk\u200d to professors, academics, industry people\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy\u2064 interjected again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou literally \u200bjust quoted one \u200dperson\u2019s opinion,\u201d he \u200csaid. \u201cWith due respect, that\u2019s \u2062exactly what you just quoted.\u200d And I think that\u200c that\u2019s \u2064what\u2019s driving this kind of false narrative as \u2064opposed to the\u200d facts that I\u2019m citing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During an interview with TMZ, \u200cRamaswamy \u2062appeared to send hosts Harvey \u200bLevin and Charles Latibeaudiere\u2063 into cognitive\u200c dissonance after \u2063he pointed out variables relating \u2062to\u200b deaths and survival rates in the climate narrative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re in Los Angeles, and we \u200bjust\u2064 had \u200dthis crazy tropical \u200dstorm, and I\u2019m an old \u200cdog,\u200c and I\u2019ve never seen anything like that in my \u2063lifetime,\u201d Levin said. \u201cMaui burned up, at least Lahaina\u2063 did, and \u200dthe country is\u2063 experiencing temperatures that\u2062 we\u2019ve never seen before, as is the\u2062 world. And \u2062I heard\u200d what you said during the debate where\u200c you brushed\u200c aside climate change. What do \u200cyou \u200cthink is\u2062 causing\u200b all \u200cthis?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After reiterating \u2062the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joy-reid-on-january-6-i-worried-rioters-would-destroy-black-history-museum\/\" title=\"Joy Reid: On January 6, I Worried Rioters Would Destroy Black History Museum\">similar talking points<\/a> he said on MSNBC less than 48 hours earlier, \u2063Ramaswamy said that temperature or climate-related death \u200brates have reduced \u2064because of more \u201cabundant and plentiful access to fossil fuels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe right answer to all temperature-related deaths is more abundant fossil fuels,\u201d he\u2063 said. \u201cThe earth is covered \u200cby more green\u200b surface area \u200dtoday than it was half a century or a century ago because carbon dioxide is \u200bplant food. These\u2062 are the \u200bhard \u2064facts, not \u2064theories, that\u2064 you don\u2019t hear from the climate agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Earth\u2019s surface\u2063 area is\u2064 covered with more plant life today \u200bthan 50 years ago\u2063 \u2013 because, yes, carbon is plant \u200dfood and surface \u2063temperatures\u2064 are a little higher. I\u2019m\u2062 pro-environment. Clean air. Clean water. Preserving national parks. \u200cIronically these things are put on the back\u2026 \u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bmGDQg7Guo\">pic.twitter.com\/bmGDQg7Guo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VivekGRamaswamy\/status\/1697253067316760691?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August\u200d 31, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy criticized the &#8220;climate change&#8221; narrative, calling it a &#8220;hoax&#8221; during the GOP debate. He emphasized in an interview with MSNBC&#8217;s Andrea Mitchell that technology fueled by fossil fuels has effectively decreased climate-related deaths. 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