but this only takes into account human death toll (still good news). The damage being done by hurricanes is vastly worse than it was before. If you are getting hit with 7+ major hurricanes per year and it keeps going up, you have to repair that damage over and over again. 2020 has 22 billion in damages just form hurricanes, not even all natural disasters (like fires). There is an economic component here.
@medros is right, it used to be an average of 4 that make landfall a year, now a slow year is 7, with the average closer to 10... 13+ in a bad year. Also, the intensity has increased. You might have had one cat 5 every 5-6 years, now it's 1-2 years. Never mind that anything west of the rockies is now in a serious fire threat for various human reasons. The reason it doesn't seem like anything out of the ordinary is due to you not existing when this crap didn't happen nearly as often.
to add: neither was I, but you can look at the historical records and see it progress. 1918 was a particularly bad year, but it was once in a decade year.
Here's another good one - Fake News - Wrong - the planet will cool back down you watch
- this is a quote from #45 infront of a room full of scientists -
- this is a quote from #45 infront of a room full of scientists -