David Wojick
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Research on climate change
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" for a now-defunct industry front group called the Greening Earth Society, created by the Western Fuels Association, a large US coal industry association.
In his role as a "policy analyist," Wojick's client list includes: AES Corporation, one of the largest electrical generation companies, with much of that in the form of coal, and Allegheny Energy, a company that generates 95% of its power from coal.
Wojick was a columnist 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.
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