Scientist who urged government to sue climate skeptics gets millions from taxpayers

Reported By Fox News on 2015-10-07

 A key signatory of a petition calling for government to sue companies that question climate change has pulled the letter from his institute’s website amid revelations his family reaped $500,000 in salary and benefits last year from the government-funded organization…. Last year, tax records show that Shukla received a $333,000 salary and benefits from an organization he created called the ‘The Institute of Global Environment and Society’ – a group that gets 90 percent of its revenue from government grants. His wife also received $166,000 in compensation from the group over the same period…. The organization has been operating since 1991, and total payments from the group to the Shuklas since 2001 (the most recent year records are available) amount to $5.6 million, according to an analysis of old returns by the Free Beacon….”