Takes a while to reach its punchline, but this is a terrific outgrowth of a project at the Center for Global Development: tracking the impact of every powerplant, worldwide, and using it to leverage advocacy via partner organizations to whom data will be furnished. The cool idea here is to compare the estimated dollar cost of CO2 emissions with the estimated dollar cost of hurricanes. It's a great bit of social math -- and the graphics in the blog posting help bring it home.

For the global community, the view from [the power plant at] Mt. Storm turns out to be shocking. This single facility, ranked only 36th among US power plants, is accountable every year for global damage equivalent to the concentrated destruction from a category 3 hurricane. And the parent company, ranked 10th among US power companies, is accountable for category-5-level damage.