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View video-on-demand webstream recordings of the most recent events/guest speakers hosted by the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions. Please note that the videos may take a couple of seconds to load.

For recordings of past events not available below, please contact pics@uvic.ca.

Past events

Date: May 8, 2012
Title: Smart Environmental Policy with Full-Cost Pricing
Speaker: Nancy Olewiler, PICS Program Committee member and Professor, SFU School of Public Policy

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Date: March 6, 2012
Title:Climate Change and Food Security in BC
Speakers: Francis Zwiers, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium and Aleck Ostry, Department of Geography, University of Victoria

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Date: March 5, 2012
Title: Insulting the World's Oceans
Speakers: Tom Pedersen, Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions and Verena Tunnicliffe, VENUS Ocean Network, University of Victoria

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Date: February 15, 2012
Title: BC Weather Year in Review for 2011: An Introduction to PCIC Climate Analysis and Monitoring
Speaker: Faron Anslow, Climatologist, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium

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Date: January 24, 2012
Title: Reporting on Sustainability Progress at the University of Victoria - 2009-11
Speaker: Neil Connelly, Director, Office of Campus Planning and Sustainability

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Date: November 30, 2011
Title: Debunking Climate Myths in the Age of New Media
Speaker: John Cook, Founder of skepticalscience.com, a website that rebuts climate misinformation with peer-reviewed science.

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Date: October 19, 2011
Title: Wind Power Integration: How useful is a Smarter Grid?
Speaker: Torsten Broeer, PhD Candidate and PICS Fellow, Institute for Integrated Energy Systems (IESVIc), University of Victoria

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Date: October 12, 2011
Title: A 100% Renewable Electricity System for New Zealand
Speaker: Dr. Ian Mason, Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

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Date: September 21, 2011
Title: Evaluating the Informational Value of Pressure-Based Proxies for Past Storm Activity
Speaker: Oliver Krüger, PhD Candidate, Institute for Coastal Research Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (Germany)

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Date: June 27, 2011
Title: Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Speaker: Dr. Naomi Oreskes, Professor of History and Science Studies, University of California San Diego, author and 2011 Climate Change Communicator of the Year

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Date: April 20, 2011
Title: The Climate Fix - What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You about Global Warming
Speaker: Dr. Roger Pielke Jr., Centre for Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Colorado at Boulder

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Date: April 7, 2011
Title: The Machinery of Climate Anti-Science
Speaker: Dr. John Mashey

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Date: March 22, 2011
Title: The Psychology of Climate Change
Speaker: Dr. Sabine Pahl, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Plymouth, UK

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Date: March 16, 2011
Title: When the Wind Blows: The Economic and Environmental Effects of Adding Wind Energy Generation to the Grid
Speaker: Amy Sopinka, PhD Candidate and PICS Fellow, Dept. of Geography, University of Victoria

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Date: February 16, 2011
Title:NEPTUNE Canada: Realtime, Continuous, Interactive Information from the Coast to the Deep Sea
Speaker: Dr. Mairi Best, Associate Director - Science, NEPTUNE Canada

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Date: January 19, 2011
Title: Troubling the Carbon Footprint
Speaker: Anita Girvan, PhD Candidate and PICS Fellow, Cultural Social and Political Thought, University of Victoria

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Date: April 8, 2010
Title:Climate Change and the Media: Scientists, Scribes and Spinmeisters
Speakers: Peter Calamai, former Science Writer, Toronto Star; Lucinda Chodan, Editor-in-Chief, Times Colonist; Jim Hoggan, Co-author of the bestseller Climate Cover-Up; and Dr. Tom Pedersen, Director, Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions