Is the fossil fuel industry, like the tobacco industry, guilty of racketeering?

ExxonMobil has become infamous for its deceptive anti-climate science campaign, getting spent $30 million financing groups denying the technological evidence and consensus upon human-caused global warming.
Last week, right after an eight-month investigation, InsideClimate News revealed that from the late-1970s to the mid-1980s, scientists in Exxon were in fact in the cutting edge of climate technology research.
In an internal Sept 1982 document, Exxon researchers summarized the expert general opinion on human-caused global warming, and also the consistency of their own research with this expert consensus.
It’s sarcastic that 33 years ago, the actual world’s largest oil organization accepted and concurred using the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming that many people continue to refuse to this day.
In another internal business document in November 1982, Exxon scientists illustrated the particular rapid global warming they likely to occur over the following millennium due to rising carbon air pollution from burning fossil fuels. Annually earlier, Exxon scientists had been discussing the distinct chance that the consequences of environment change could become huge in the near future.
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