Forget wedges and teragrams.
The next big thing in forcing metrics is the pentagram:
CLIMATE PROGRESS
Government Acknowledges 2012 Climate Milestones Show We’ve Reached ‘A New Normal’
CREDIT: NOAA
. . . In a press conference Tuesday, Kathryn Sullivan, acting NOAA administrator and co-author of the report, said the findings in the report paint a picture of a “new normal” for the Earth...
The report noted several other climate records broken in 2012:
– The world emitted a record 9.7 pentagrams — about 9.7 quadrillion grams — of carbon pollution in 2012.