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A silver lining to climate change Environmentally speaking, the Earth may be head- ed to hell in a handbasket, but whitewater kayakers should enjoy the ride. If it wasn’t enough that the world’s rivers will overfl ow with melted glacier water, according to University of Exeter in the U.K., one day it appears rising carbon dioxide levels will kick in too. A team of scientists from the Met Offi ce Had- ley Centre, the University of Exeter and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology suggest that increasing carbon dioxide will cause plants to extract less wa- ter from the soil, leaving more water to drain into riv- ers which will add to the river fl ow increases already expected due to climate change. Way-2-go-CO2.
Prairie gang warfare Manitoba Canoe and Kayak Club members are watching their backs after fi nding their Red River Fort Rouge facility had been riddled with bullets. Most of the damage was kept to wooden doors of the club’s main training and equipment building, but in all about 15 bullet holes, probably from a 9 mm handgun, peppered the facility causing sever- al hundred dollars of damage. Oddly enough, sev- eral days later Manitoba Handgun Club members returned to their Red River facility to fi nd it riddled with Dagger holes.
Class IV classrooms The Paddlesports Industry Association was called into duty this past March when midwestern U.S. fl oods turned several outfi tters, schools and paddling resorts into underwater disasters. PIA chairman Rob- ert Bass’ own Ozark Outdoors Riverfront Resort— which had been hosting a week of National Schools of Paddlesports Business events—ended up with cabins under 10 feet of water, 30 outfi tters stranded and a number of students and instructors left without classrooms. The PIA is accepting non-tax-refundable donations to the Disaster Communications Grants Fund, a restricted-fund established to assist mem- bers in recovering from fl oods and similar events.
Beam me out Jean-Luc Picard knows dilithium crystals are by far the most effi cient fuel source in the galaxy, but close runners up, oil and water, are enterprising enough to earn a salute from actor Patrick Stewart. Seth Warren and Tyler Bradt’s fi lm Oil+Water, re- leased by Heliconia Press, won best picture at the Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival at the end of 2007, with Shakespearian actor and former Trek- kie captain Stewart urging all to “see it again and again.” Of course things went south when Bradt, in an attempt to return the praise, exclaimed “Nanoo- Nanoo. May the Force be with you.”—NE
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