Climate scientist Katherine Hayhoe revealed this week that CNN had not aired an interview with her, which allowed the network to give contributor Rick Santorum more time to “spread disinformation.”

During a Sunday panel on CNN, Santorum had rejected a government report on climate change, and he accused climate scientists of having a monetary agenda.

“If we didn’t have climate change, we would have a lot of scientists looking for work,” the CNN contributor scoffed. “To say that scientists have a consensus — the reality is that there’s lots of disagreement out there about what is causing this.”

On Tuesday, Hayhoe explained on Twitter that CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 had invited her to speak on the program, but her segment was cut.

“Instead, they give more airtime to Santorum, so he can to continue to spread disinformation,” she wrote.

Read Hayhoe’s tweets below.

Let me share a sad reality. @AC360 asked if I could join them tonight or talk #NationalClimateAssessment. I just arrived at @TED, and I really need to practice my talk, I replied. Please! they said, we will send a car! Ok, I said. It’s important. I will do it. (story continues..)

— Katharine Hayhoe (@KHayhoe) November 28, 2018

I get my hair and make up done, we drive across the city, I do the interview, Anderson is lovely, the whole thing takes three hours …. and they don’t air the interview. Instead, they give more airtime to Santorum, so he can to continue to spread disinformation.

— Katharine Hayhoe (@KHayhoe) November 28, 2018

I don’t get paid for any of this – but I think he does, doesn’t he? And this is not the first time this has happened. Chris Hayes’ program canceled three times, once when I was literally in a chair with that earpiece in my ear. When @MSNBC called me again this week, I said…

— Katharine Hayhoe (@KHayhoe) November 28, 2018

… I would be delighted to talk to you, but in order to be a wise steward of my time, I need a guarantee the interview will air, barring a major disaster, an assassination, or the end of the world. They did not reply.

— Katharine Hayhoe (@KHayhoe) November 28, 2018

Please don’t get me wrong – I’m not whining or complaining. I am enormously grateful for any and all media who wants to talk climate, and equally grateful for the opportunity to do so. I talk to high school newspapers, Christian podcasts, and even sports blogs!

— Katharine Hayhoe (@KHayhoe) November 28, 2018

But time is the most precious resource we have, and there is not enough to go around – so when we choose how to spend our time, it just makes sense to be sure it will be used profitably and not squandered.

So twitverse, tell me: what wd YOU do with such requests in the future?

— Katharine Hayhoe (@KHayhoe) November 28, 2018

I am a scientist, Shirley, and he is wrong. If you want to know why, please watch this: https://t.co/rPA74QZ7gp if you prefer to continue in comfortable ignorance though, definitely do not click :)

— Katharine Hayhoe (@KHayhoe) November 28, 2018

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