
Joe Wertz
Weather and Climate Reporter at Bloomberg News
Weather + climate reporter for @business. Okie in London. Boot-wearer, pug-lover. No stranger of hijinks. 👋: [email protected] | signal: 4056736397
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4 days ago |
bloomberg.com | Brian K. Sullivan |Joe Wertz |Mary Hui
Welcome to Weather Watch, our weekly newsletter on how the planet’s ever wilder weather patterns are impacting the global economy. Got feedback and forecasts? Write us at [email protected]. And sign up here if you’re not on the list already. The Northern Hemisphere’s summer hasn’t officially started, but signs are already piling up that North America, Asia and Europe will be pummeled by record heat and other weather extremes.
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4 days ago |
bloomberg.com | Joe Wertz
Today’s newsletter looks at the summer ahead for the Northern Hemisphere and all of the troubling, surprising and weird impacts climate change is creating. Read on or get the full story on baking highways, new employee heat laws and a British octopus invasion on Bloomberg.com. For unlimited access to climate and energy news, please subscribe.
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1 week ago |
bloomberg.com | Joe Wertz
A marine heatwave has led to boom in octopus. (Bloomberg) -- Some English fishermen have hit the jackpot this season, hauling in tons of octopus, but the invasion of the eight-legged molluscs also highlights the threat from marine heat waves.
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2 weeks ago |
bloomberg.com | Joe Wertz |Emma Court
Today’s newsletter covers another terrible consequence of global warming: the increased spread of mosquito-borne diseases. Our London-based weather reporter Joe Wertz first looks at the alarming news that West Nile virus was recently detected in the UK. Later, our climate and health reporter Emma Court tells us about a potential breakthrough in slowing the spread of malaria. For unlimited access to climate and energy news, please subscribe.
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2 weeks ago |
news.bloombergtax.com | Joe Wertz
Unusually persistent high-pressure weather systems over northwest Europe are bringing sunny skies, perfect for solar generation, but it’s having the opposite effect on wind. Wind speeds across the region plunged by almost a quarter in the first four months of this year compared with the long-term average, data from Atmospheric G2 show. That’s dented earnings from offshore wind farms, including those operated by RWE AG and Orsted AS.
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