CNBC tries to get writer to lie, fails.

CNBC Caught Soliciting Writer To Claim Global Warming Is A "Hoax"

Blog ››› June 26, 2014 7:03 PM EDT ››› SHAUNA THEEL

CNBC sought someone to write about "global warming being a hoax" in order to counter a major new report that shows the economic cost of failing to take climate action.

As Republic Report first reported, the cable business channel CNBC reached out to DeSmogBlog, a website that rebuts climate change denial, to ask Alan Carlin, an economist who denies that the majority of recent warming is man-made, to write about "global warming being a hoax." (CNBC apparently mistakenly assumed that Carlin worked with DeSmogBlog because they had profiled him.) Media Matters has confirmed that Cindy Perman, the commentary editor of CNBC.com, sent the following message to DeSmogBlog:

Hi there. Given this new report on the cost of climate change, wanted to extend an invitation to Alan Carlin to write an op-ed for CNBC.com. Can be on the new report or just his general thoughts on global warming being a hoax.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/06/26/cnbc-caught-soliciting-writer-to-claim-global-w/199903