Making things up: Warmist Noam Chomsky imagines "major campaigns" launched in 2009 by energy industries and businesses to promote climate realism

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In 2009 the energy industries, backed by business lobbies, launched major campaigns that cast doubt on the near-unanimous consensus of scientists on the severity of the threat of human-induced global warming.  [WTF, specifically, is Chomsky talking about here?  I'd like a detailed explanation from someone on the warmist side, say Andy Revkin.]