The two conservative writers had attacked Michael Mann by accusing him of manipulating climate change data and comparing him with a convicted child molester.
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Climate scientist Michael Mann won his defamation case against two conservative writers, who accused him of manipulating data and compared him with a convicted child molester.Key Facts
A jury in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia found the defendants—Rand Simberg, a former adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and Mark Steyn, a National Review contributor—guilty of defaming Mann by making several false statements in a blog post and an article published in 2012.
The jury ruled that each writer would pay $1 to the scientist for compensatory damages, in addition to Steyn paying $1 million and Simberg paying $1,000 in punitive damages for “maliciousness, spite, ill will, vengeance or deliberate intent to harm,” according to the New York Times.
