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78 Climatologist Michael Mann Finally Won a $1M Defamation Suit - But Then a Judge Threw It Out

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 03/15/2025 13:34 EDT

Climatologist Michael Mann Finally Won a $1M Defamation Suit - But Then a Judge Threw It Out

Slashdot has run nearly a dozen stories about Michael Mann, one of America's most prominent climate scientists and a co-creator of the famous "hockey stick" graph of spiking temperatures. In 2012 Mann sued two bloggers for defamation — and last year Mann finally won more than $1 million, reports the Washington Post. "A jury found that two conservative commentators had defamed him by alleging that he was like a child molester in the way he had 'molested and tortured' climate data."

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