Terence Corcoran Financial Post | 16/09/13 7:59 PM ET

As climate models and economics founder, both the politics and science of climate change are on the ropes at UN and across the globe

This past week, a number of these stories written for news sources worldwide are asking the same question. If the models and predictions for global warming /climate change are out of sync with reality, what are we mitigating and adapting for? Here is an excerpt from this article.

No matter what side of the debate one is on, there is no denying that the actual global temperature record for the last 15 or more years shows no sign of warming. Guelph University’s Ross McKitrick reviews the graphic evidence. The record clearly has fallen outside the prediction bounds produced by a succession of IPCC computer climate models back to 1990. The record points to big trouble for the IPCC and the whole climate theory. “Something big is about to happen,” says Prof. McKitrick. “Models predict one thing and the data show another. The various attempts in recent years to patch over the difference are disintegrating. Over the next few years, either there is going to be a sudden, rapid warming that shoots temperatures up to where the models say they should be, or the mainstream climate modeling paradigm is going to fall apart.”

Rest of the article can be read here:
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2013/09/16/terence-corcoran-the-tide-is-rising-on-climate-models-and-policies/