Plaintiff Michael Mann is a widely known figure in the
scientific and public policy spheres of global warming
research who has thrust himself into the politics of the
global warming debate by appearing in TV commercials for
political candidates, writing newspaper columns regularly
for The Guardian, The New York Times and others, serving as
scientific advisor to and appearing in a climate-change TV
series starring climate experts Matt Damon and Jessica Alba,
and is therefore a public figure. In March 2012, Plaintiff
published a book called The Hockey Stick And The Climate
Wars: Dispatches From The Front Lines, the “front lines”
presumably referring to his media appearances with Miss Alba
et al.
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