In response to Greg’s post below on the Times’s half-hearted acknowledgment of the role that the big ball of burning gas in the sky might play in Earth’s climate, reader E. G. writes in:

So the New York Times dismisses 0.1 percent of the Sun’s energy as irrelevant — I guess because anything that small must be noise?
How trivial, then, the 0.038 percent of our atmosphere comprised of CO2.