“The reality is more people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate change.”
Vivek Ramaswamy
GOP presidential primary candidate. Claim dated 23 Aug 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisPants on Fire
What PolitiFact found
Reliable data shows that climate change has killed millions of people. Ramaswamy did not explain his evidence.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Vivek Ramaswamy (GOP presidential primary candidate) made this claim around 23 August 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 24 August 2023, 1 day later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
Vivek Ramaswamy has 19 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 8 of them false or fake, 10 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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