Michael Mann has been ‘in the climate wars’ for well over a decade now. As he reminds us frequently in this new book, he has been in the cross-hairs of his enemies, has fought-off the attack-dogs and carries the scars of battle. Even Bill McKibben’s promotional puff for the book valorises Mann in terms of his “scars from the climate wars”. The military framing of climate change long pre-dates Mann’s involvement, but it certainly is a framing he has done much to promote through his blogs, tweets and general persona-at-large in public discourse. Contributing not least to this was his earlier book The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines (Columbia, 2012).