Policy analyst or crusading journalist

In the December 2007 Issues and Events story entitled “Climate Changes for Peace Prize Winners” (Physics Today, Physics Today 0031-9228 60 12 2007 22  https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2825060 December 2007, page 22 ), the author twice quotes George Monbiot on the nature of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the current status of the debate on global climate change. He is identified as “an environmental policy analyst at Oxford Brookes University in the UK.” This is a misleading description. Monbiot’s claim to prominence is based on his activities as a crusading journalist for a variety of broadly left-wing causes and on his political activism in the antiglobalization movement. I doubt that he himself would claim to be an objective academic, which is, nevertheless, the impression created by the Physics Today piece.