I've never heard of greater numbers of hurricanes being attributed to global warming. What I've always heard them saying is that the hurricanes that do form are more powerful.
If you pay even a little bit of attention to the mainstream news channels (and The Weather Channel, BTW) you'll hear the mantra that hurricanes are happening more often and that they're getting worse. Neither of those tidbits is true.
That's weird because even the ringleader of climate alarmism, the IPCC, has been saying for more than a decade that global warming is NOT increasing the number of hurricanes.
https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/03/SREX-Chap3_FINAL-1.pdf
Based on research subsequent to the AR4 and Kunkel et al. (2008), which further elucidated the scope of uncertainties in the historical tropical cyclone data, the most recent assessment by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Expert Team on Climate Change Impacts on Tropical Cyclones (Knutson et al., 2010) concluded that it remains uncertain whether past changes in any tropical cyclone activity (frequency, intensity, rainfall) exceed the variability expected through natural causes, after accounting for changes over time in observing capabilities. The present assessment regarding observed trends in tropical cyclone activity is essentially identical to the WMO assessment (Knutson et al., 2010): there is low confidence that any observed long-term (i.e., 40 years or more) increases in tropical cyclone activity are robust, after accounting for past changes in observing capabilities.
That's weird because even the ringleader of climate alarmism, the IPCC, has been saying for more than a decade that global warming is NOT increasing the number of hurricanes.
Understood. I can only assume that media outlets push the story to garner ratings and clicks.
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