Original sentence: In 2001, Lynas achieved some international notoriety by throwing a Baked Alaska  pie in the face of Bjorn Lomborg during a public reading from Lomborg's The Skeptical Environmentalist, at a Borders Bookshop in Oxford.The reason for the attack, according to Lynas, was "pies for damn lies", in protest against Lomborg's assessment of the effects of global warming, seen by some as upbeat: "I wanted to put a Baked Alaska in his smug face, in solidarity with the native Indian and Eskimo people in Alaska who are reporting rising temperatures, shrinking sea ice and worsening effects on animal and bird life
Edited sentence: In 2001, Lynas achieved some international notoriety for physically assaulting statistician Bjorn Lomborg by throwing a Baked Alaska pie in his face of during a public reading from Lomborg's The Skeptical Environmentalist, at a Borders Bookshop in Oxford.The reason for the attack, according to Lynas, was "pies for damn lies", in protest against Lomborg's opinions on the effects of global warming, seen by some as upbeat: "I wanted to put a Baked Alaska in his smug face, in solidarity with the native Indian and Eskimo people in Alaska who are reporting rising temperatures, shrinking sea ice and worsening effects on animal and bird life