From the Insurance Journal: Damage from Whopper Hurricanes Increasing for Many Reasons.
America and the world are getting more frequent and bigger multibillion dollar tropical catastrophes like Hurricane Laura because of a combination of increased coastal development, natural climate cycles, reductions in air pollution and man-made climate change, experts say.
The list of recent whoppers keeps growing: Harvey, Irma, Maria, Florence, Michael, Dorian. And hurricane experts have no doubt that Laura will be right there with them.
While factually accurate re damage, there is no discernible increase in either frequency or intensity of hurricanes (see Pielke’s work, and a host of others). The fault is not in our climate but ourselves, for moving to more hazardous places.