Climatology works at a different granularity in time and space from meterology. You can abstract away a lot of detail in climate models and still come out with

Climatology works at a different granularity in time and space from meterology. You can abstract away a lot of detail in climate models and still come out with useful predictions (the article has an example). You can include items like Antarctic sheet melt and Tundra methane release that has almost zero 72-hour effect but will matter deeply in 5, 50, 200 years.