text: Fossil fuels allowed man to live his life as a proud human, but the IPCC asserts its use causes catastrophic global warming. Fortunately, the global warming claim by the IPCC that For the next two decades, a warming of about 0.2C per decade is projected for a range of SRES emission scenario is not supported by observations as shown in Figure 1, which shows a plateau for the global mean temperature trend for the last decade.