Asked if climate change could have been a factor behind the unusually wet weather this month, SMU Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society Winston Chow, who is a lead author in an upcoming report by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said more post-hoc studies are needed to determine this. He explained that theoretically, warmer air could increase monsoonal rainfall under the right conditions, but also noted that monsoonal rainfall here is influenced by many other factors independent of climate change.