The science of blaming climate change for extreme weather has limits
Short-duration, sub-daily extreme events, such as intense bursts of rain lasting only an hour or so, are harder to link to climate change than day-long heatwaves; attribution of localised events is also hampered by limited long-term weather records, insufficient computing power, and what ‘extreme’ weather really entails
· 8/25/2026, 12:52:31 PM· 2 min read
Short-duration, sub-daily extreme events, such as intense bursts of rain lasting only an hour or so, are harder to link to climate change than day-long heatwaves; attribution of localised events is also hampered by limited long-term weather records, insufficient computing power, and what ‘extreme’ weather really entails
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