Are hurricanes more frequent or severe than in the past: No

Are hurricanes more frequent or severe than in the past: No!

When news media want viewers, they will say anything, Now they are telling us that hurricanes are more frequent and/or more severe than in the past. Climate Change!

Nonsense. The facts just don't support either claim. Here are the facts, from NOAA and other reputable sources (cited below). Many of these alarmist claims are based on flawed models using project assumptions and coming from bias researchers who have a political and/or profit incentive to be extreme. Two recent peer reviewed studies found a large degree of bias towards warmer projections, in some cases projecting warming 4 to 5 times faster than actual observed temperature data. There is an excellent article which points out the many fallacies that the news media andthe models make here .

U.S. Hurricane Strikes by Decade 1850 to 2004 - From NOAA

Number of hurricanes by Saffir-Simpson Category to strike the mainland U.S. each decade.

An excerpt from "Climate Realism:

Indeed, in July 2021 the journal Science published an article noting “climate scientists face this alarming reality, the climate models that help them project the future have grown a little too alarmist. Many of the world’s leading models are now projecting warming rates that most scientists, including the model developers themselves, believe are implausibly fast .

The researchers then compounded their error of relying on admittedly flawed computer models as a basis for attributing changes in hurricane rainfall patterns by using the most extreme climate scenario generated by those models, RCP8.5. Research demonstrates the world hasn’t been on the RCP8.5 path, since before it was first generated by climate models. More recently, Climate Realism highlighted two scientific papers demonstrating that RCP8.5 future climate scenarios can’t occur . There simply isn’t enough fossil fuel in existence on the planet to make it happen.