George Will, in a Newsweek essay (they try to cover all sides), elaborates on an essay by Robert B. Laughlin titled, "What the Earth Knows" written in The American Scholar. It doesn't matter to the earth whether or not you drive a hybrid. In the long run -- geologic time measured in millions of years -- what mileage your car gets won't make any difference. The earth has had periods where it has been much colder and much hotter. Nothing to worry about. Therefore we don't need to worry about global warming.
Will's essay, and apparently Laughlin's, says nothing about the effects of global warming on the humans living on earth and the culture and society we have built, not to mention a multitude of our fellow species. Global warming will have devastating consequences to humans -- more extreme weather, crop failure, uninhabitable homes due to flooding or rising seas, and I'm sure my list is incomplete.
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