What's a Year's Work Worth?

Here's today's question:  how much should a university professor of climatology earn?  I can make this more concrete if the question is too vague.  How much should Jagadish Shukla meteorologist at George Mason University in Virginia be paid?  Professor Shukla is a climate scientist who has a series of government grants connected to global warming.  He is also a leader of the push to have the government prosecute those who question global warming for supposedly having violated the RICO laws.  What does an average climate scientist make these days?

Well let's provide the answer.  First of all Shukla has his salary from George Mason University.  Since GMU is a public institution, that is being paid by the people of Virginia.  His exact salary is not public, but it is said to be roughly $150,000 per year.  That's not too bad.  But then there's those government grants to study global warming and its effects.  According to news reports, Shukla paid himself and his family members more than an additional $500,000 from those grants.  That's a total of more than $650,000.

After hearing those numbers, is there anyone who wonders why Shukla so urgently wants to stop people from questioning global warming?  I mean if global warming were discredited, the man's income would drop by half a million dollars.