David E. Wojick

David E. Wojick is a well-known and vocal climate change "skeptic," with strong links to the coal industry and a now-defunct coal industry front-group called the Greening Earth Society. [1]

Wojick is not a climate scientist
Wojick has been described as a journalist and policy analyst. According to a search of 22,000 academic journals, Wojick has not published any research in a peer-reviewed journal on the subject of climate change.

Wojick, Coal and Electricity
Wojick was a scientific advisor [2] for a now-defunct industry front group called the "Greening Earth Society,[3] created by the Western Fuels Association [4], a large US coal industry association. In his role as a "policy analyist," Wojick's client list [5]includes: AES Corporation [6],one of the largest electrical generation companies, with much of that in the form of coal, and Allegheny Energy [7], a company that generates 95% of its power from coal. Wojick was a columnist [8] for the “Electricity Daily,” a now-defunct electrical industry trade magazine.

Wojick and industry-funded “think tanks”
Wojick is listed as "contributing editor" " to Environment and Climate News, a publication of the Heartland Institute, a US think tank at the forefront of the attack on climate change science. Heartland has received over half a million in funding from ExxonMobil, the largest oil company in the world.