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But some of the impacts of climate change do depend on details and processes that are, often, fairly difficult to resolve in these models. that s true when it comes to the impact of climate change on extreme-weather events. they capture the fact that a warmer planet is going to have more intense and more frequent heat waves. and that s going to dry out soil. so you get worse drought. and you combine that those heat waves with that drought. you get the sorts of epic wildfires that we are seeing break out. but at the same time, a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture so when it does rain, you get more of those extreme-flooding events. the models capture all of that. what they don t capture very well is the way that climate change is actually changing the behavior of our jet stream. and it is slowing it down and causing some of those weather systems to grow, in magnitude, and become locked in place. so you get those deep high-pressure centers over the western u.s. that gives us that unp ....