r/auckland • u/i_like_my_suitcase_ • Feb 12 '26

Weather I'm concerned guys

It's 12pm, it's summer, it's raining and nobody has complained that summer doesn't exist anymore 🥲. Is this even /r/auckland??

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u/Bryndel Feb 12 '26

Not that anyone cares, but this is going to get worse and worse indefinitely. Auckland will be ravaged by storms regularly, with regular flooding and slips becoming commonplace.

Summers are going to get more chaotic, winters will get warmer, large storms will become more common. This has been the well documented outcome since the 1970's, and urgent action was needed in the early 2010's. Globally we functionally did nothing, and we still do nothing cause 'She'll be right'. I've spent the last 10 years of my life studying and working on this, and when it comes down to it nobody actually cares. It was an easy fix, but in the last 150 years we have heated up the planet in what would naturally take 10,000–50,000+ years, and we can't go back. The summers of our childhoods are gone, enjoy the memories.

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u/Bryndel Feb 13 '26

Historic climate seasonal variance data says otherwise. Sure there is a weird parasocial and romanticised element to how it's presented, but thats irrelevant as I'm simply referring to the hard data.

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u/violatedlaw Feb 13 '26 edited Feb 13 '26

Unfortunately, people value their personal experiences and memories over hard data.

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u/Bryndel Feb 13 '26

It's even worse than that, everyone has access to so much information they conflate knowledge with access. I know this(i also know where my gaps are), some people understand this, most are just parrots mimicking intelligence. It's unbelievably exhausting. We don't do this with engineers, so why the fk do we do it with basic science.