Climate scientist Michael Mann’s lawsuit against right-wing bloggers explained

University of Pennsylvania professor and climate scientist Michael Mann won a defamation lawsuit against a pair of right-wing bloggers who compared his depictions of global warming to a convicted child molester over a decade ago.

A civil trial jury on Thursday found that writers Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn defamed Mann in blog posts they wrote in 2012. The Superior Court of the District of Columbia jurors awarded Mann more than $1 million, deeming the statements in the blogs to have been made with “maliciousness, spite, ill will, vengeance…