<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-09/agu-cce091619.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear 0s; display: block; position: relative; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><header style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 18px 0px;" class=""><div class="reltime" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">News Release 16-Sep-2019</font></span></div><h2 class="post_title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Climate change expected to accelerate spread of sometimes-fatal fungal infection</font></span></h2><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000" class="">AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION</font></span></header><div class="entry hidden-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="intro" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(185, 186, 188); padding-left: 10px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Valley fever is endemic to hot and dry regions like the southwestern United States and California's San Joaquin Valley, but a new study predicts climate change will cause the fungal infection's range to more than double in size this century, reaching previously unaffected areas across the western U.S.</font></span></p></div><dl class="meta hidden-xs dl-horizontal" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 17px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><dt class="yellow" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; float: left; width: auto; clear: left; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; text-transform: uppercase; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-color: rgb(255, 177, 52); padding-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 12px; min-width: 100px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">JOURNAL</font></span></dt><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 100px;" class=""><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">GeoHealth</font></em></dd></dl></a><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><b class="">Full release </b></span><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-09/agu-cce091619.php" class="">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-09/agu-cce091619.php</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Excerpt from release:</b> "<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The states projected to host newly endemic counties are </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">Montana,</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming, and the disease is expected to become more widespread in Colorado, Idaho and Oklahoma, according to the study.</span></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">"The range of valley fever is going to increase substantially," said Morgan Gorris, a former UCI PhD student in Earth system science and lead author of the new study. "We made projections out to the end of the 21st century, and our model predicts that valley fever will travel farther north throughout the western United States, especially in the rain shadow of the Rocky Mountains and throughout the Great Plains, and by that time, much of the western U.S. will be considered endemic."</p><div class=""><b class="">Read-only(can be saved to your desktop) pdf of the article cited above:</b> </div><div class=""><a href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2019GH000209" class="">https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2019GH000209</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">————————————</div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Australian Financial Review March 29, 2019</span></div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b class="">Directors' climate liability exposure increasing 'exponentially'</b></span></div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(85, 85, 85);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"><a href="https://www.afr.com/ben-potter-j7gdk" class=""><b class="">Ben Potter</b></a><b class=""> </b></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><i class="">Senior Reporter</i></span></span></div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.afr.com/news/directors-climate-liability-exposure-increasing-exponentially-20190327-h1cuja" class="">https://www.afr.com/news/directors-climate-liability-exposure-increasing-exponentially-20190327-h1cuja</a></span></div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b class="">Excerpts</b></span></div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span class="">The exposure of individual company directors to the risk of </span><a href="https://www.afr.com/news/climate-litigation-could-become-like-tobacco-actions-martijn-wilder-20180405-h0yctd" class=""><span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(15, 108, 201); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(15, 108, 201);">"climate change litigation"</span></a> is </span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">increasing, probably exponentially, </span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">a new legal opinion asserts.</span></span></div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(15, 108, 201); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(15, 108, 201);"><a href="http://https//cpd.org.au/2019/03/directors-duties-2019/" class="">Sydney SC Noel Hutley and barrister Sebastian Hartford Davis write</a></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> that<span class=""> it is obvious that climate change is affecting the economy, </span></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">"and it is increasingly difficult in our view for directors of companies of scale to pretend that climate change will not intersect with the interests of their firms".</span></span></div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"><span class="" style="font-weight: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">They conclude that there are now "significant and well </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">publicised risks associated with climate change and global warming </span></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);">that would be regarded by a court as<b class=""> foreseeable</b></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><b class="">"</b>,</span><span style="font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> and that "it is apparent that regulators now expect much more from companies than cursory acknowledgement and disclosure of climate change risks.</span></span></div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Sectors most exposed are banking, insurance, asset and building ownership and management, energy, transport, agriculture, food<font class=""> and forestry.</font></span></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> The opinion is an update to their <a href="https://www.afr.com/business/legal/directors-ignore-climate-change-risks-at-their-own-peril-20161101-gsf6lv" class=""><span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(15, 108, 201); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(15, 108, 201);">landmark October 2016 opinion</span></a> which found that directors who ignored climate risk now could be liable for breaching their duty of care in future.</span></span></div></div></div></div>
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