"IT'S a good day for us, it's a good day for [climate] science," exclaimed an eminent climate scientist after a jury awarded him a million dollars in a defamation suit against two writers. The news flooded major US media outlets at the start of February.

Michael Mann, one of the world's renowned climate scientists, won a defamation case against two writers: a policy analyst and then a fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and a right-wing author at the National Review for online posts published 12 years ago.

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