>What is his resolution measuring a shadow from a stick?

Once again, I do not have that type of technical information regarding his forecasting procedure.

>Whatever his pedigree, his measurement is in the real world and governed by the well-known laws of physics, and is likely to fall far short of seeing orbital perturbations.

Again, when you are dealing with potentially catastrophic phenomena such as earthquakes I think that the wisest couse of action is not to automatically dismiss things which people have proposed just because they might not sound logical.

>"Legal details"? "Very high-powered [anonymous] earthquake forecasting personnel"? This sounds more like a movie thriller than a science experiment.

There appear to be copyright matters etc. involved. And it sounds like the government of his country has certain guidelines for how research is done and discussed. I don't know all the details.