I’m teaching a new class this spring on climate. It is an upper division capstone course. I am doing some new things — flipping the classroom, running the class as a semester-long workshop and carrying individual and group projects (focused on decarbonization analyses) throughout the term.

I’ll be a lot of fun. Here is a link to the syllabus. 

Comments, suggestions welcomed!

In 2019 I did two lengthy podcasts on sports governance. My discussion with Lance Armstrong can be seen above (and is linked below). My interview with the Clean Sport Collective is also linked below.

• Lance Armstrong (link)
• Clean Sport Collective (link)

All my 2020 publications, after the break …

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updated 3 January 2020

All my 2019 publications and selected talks.

The count: Academic Papers (9); Commentary and Opinion (6), Forbes Columns (23)
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I’ve started a new column at Forbes on energy and climate. Here are my first four columns:

• When Is Climate Change Just Weather? What Hurricane Dorian Coverage Mixes Up, On Purpose (link)
• Democrat Climate Policies Are Ambitious But Fail The Reality Test (link)
• The Case for a Goldilocks Carbon Tax (link)
• The Yawning Gap Between Climate Rhetoric and Climate Action (link)

Comments welcomed and more to come!

Last month at the French Embassy in Washington, DC, I participated in a day-long session on the regulation of female athletes, following the recent decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport to uphold the IAAF regulations targeted at Caster Semenya and others. During the session, Stéphane Bermon  of the IAAF and a chief architect of the regulations, relied heavily on a new literature review by Clark et al. 2019 in the journal Clinical Endocrinology – a group of scientists associated with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency – to argue that testosterone levels between males and females do not overlap.

It turns out. Clark et al. 2019 is fatally flawed. I have been in touch with Clark et al. and the editor of the journal for the past six weeks. Read on for the details, which I am publicizing for the first time today.

Continue reading “Here We Go Again: Another Major Error Found in a Peer-Reviewed Paper Used to Support the IAAF Regulations of Female Athletes” →