It's not a weather system, it's a climate system. A very, very important difference that a lot of people (in the real world I mean) don't seem to get...
Except... they don't? They never said you can solve climate change with the future techs.
the article on their website ( https://civilization.com/news/entri...w-expansion-release-date-pc-february-14-2019/ ) ed beach talks about how they added storms. it's also in the feature list " (blizzards, sand storms, tornados, hurricanes) ". storms are weather effects. and short term effects that don't fit into a turn based game with year long turns, in my opinion.
also, from that same article:
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21st CENTURY TECHNOLOGIES & CIVICS: A new era has been added to the Technology and Civics trees. Combat new environmental effects with speculative ideas such as relocating your population out to seasteads and developing technologies to recapture carbon emissions.
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so yeah, nothing more to add, really.
they take the game in the wrong direction by adding stuff like that and i won't support that direction any longer. not that it really matters - i'm sure they'll survive the loss of one customer.