Last week, several people jammed twitter after Bill Nye the US Science Guy issued a statement on climate change.

Scientists earlier quoted in the media that climate change doesn't cause any individual extreme weather events instead the climate change might be making it worse than they would have been otherwise.

The emerging El Niño warming pattern in the Pacific Ocean is partially to blame for the heavy downpours, as is natural variability. But as per scientists climate change may have played major a role too in it as the atmosphere warms, it can hold more moisture that can then come down as rain.

Bill Nye the Science Guy called out meteorologists on Twitter for failing to mention climate change in their coverage of the floods, and it caused a bit of a backlash.

Last weeks, Nye's comments and the reaction to them raised a perennial issue: How do we accurately parse the relationship between climate change and extreme weather events, as they occur in real time?

Nye indicated that there is still a lot of pushback whenever anyone dares to link climate change to extreme weather events. But he said they need not to be afraid to talk about this relationship.

Texas Tech climate researcher Katharine Hayhoe, who took to Facebook to explain the science said that climate change does not triggers individual extreme events.

She further said that just like steroids make a baseball player stronger, climate change exacerbates many of our weather extremes, making many of them, on average, worse than they would have been naturally.

Hayhoe treated the link between a changing climate and the floods not as a matter of simple causation, but as a matter of context.