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Also at WUWT : David Attenborough associates himself with decidedly iffy theory CAGW Aquatic Ape theory
stewgreen
If Brexit with no automatic freedom of WORKER movement and a visa system is supposed to be a disaster for employers and universities in particular...
..then how come John Cook is working at George Mason U after he only "recently completed his PhD in psychology at the University of Western Australia."
Doesn't that prove that a visa system does allow pretty fluid movement of w**kers ?
stewgreen
Stewgreen. I offered no advice to anyone, just my opinion. An opinion moreover that is moderately well informed. My son is a senior investigator within HMRC and although he has never mentioned this case I am aware from conversations with him that the organization is only going after high value and high profile cases.
If I were to guess, I would venture that the good(?) Professor is only charged because his inclusion makes the case more high profile. I would also venture that HMRC couldn't care a fig if Swingland gets convicted or not. The CPS would see similar possibilities for making the case more newsworthy.
More opinion and speculation I know, but then everyone does this here.
ACK
President Obama was not the perfect saviour they expected.
Nor will president Trump be the demon the predict.
If there is one political route to standing up to Climate and Energy madness and back to proper evidence and proper maths then a Trump presidency is mostly likely it.
stewgreen
ACK, It isn't about Donald and Hillary, but how they say they will deal with it. At least one of them will lie, and when it comes to Climate Science, Hillary has the proven track record. Trump seems to have soaked up all the abuse from the progressives, without a hair out of place.
The US Presidential election, rather like Labour's drawn out self destruction, gives Dictatorships all over the world, whether running countries or whelk stalls, positive proof that Democracy is not always the right solution.
The UK Liberals are now hoping for mass deselection of Labour Candidates at the next election by the UK electorate so that they may form a coalition opposition with the SNP
golf charlie
@ACK CourtNewsUK is almost a newspaper ..it's a private press agency.
The original link given was from the Daily Mail
Have you passed on to the CPS your advice that they are wasting public money by prosecuting the good Professor ?
Perhaps they have more info than you.
stewgreen
Stewgreen. The HMRC are grossly understaffed. It would be most unlikely for them to go to court on behalf of an individual tax payer. The report came from CourtNews, rather than a newspaper report. In that there are damning reports about what the other people involved in the indictment did, but virtually nothing about the good(?) Professor. Hence my belief that he may have been a dupe.
ACK
golfCharlie.
How can you distinguish parasitic scum from the common or garden varieties?
Both Crooked Hillary and Bigoted Donald would appear to have more than enough scum to spare without needing to delve into the EPA cesspit.
ACK
If he'd just been duped to be a token scientist, I doubt he would have got to court. Even if there is evidence he should have known, I'd have a sneeking sympathy because warmists have a massive ability to self delude.
TinyCO2
Ross lea, Sep 19, 2016 at 7:44 PM
Thanks for pointing us in the direction of Judith Curry's pamphlet. Concise and just the sort of summary it is easy to refer to.
Miket