Hmmm, so the increase hurricanes are caused because of stupid EPA rules?
"A new NOAA study published today in the journal Science Advances about four decades of tropical cyclones reveals the surprising result that reducing particulate air pollution in Europe and North America has contributed to an increase in the number of tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic basin and a decrease in the number of these storms in the Southern Hemisphere. The study also found that the growth of particulate pollution in Asia has contributed to fewer tropical cyclones in the western North Pacific basin.
Over the last 40 years, Europe and North America have been leaders in reducing particulate air pollution from industry, autos, energy and other sources. The increasing absence of human-caused air pollution in the Northern Hemisphere, estimated to be a 50-percent drop in concentration from 1980 to 2020, has led to surface warming over the tropical Atlantic Ocean, which contributes to more frequent tropical cyclones. Without significant amounts of particulate pollution to reflect sunlight, the ocean absorbs more heat and warms faster. A warming Atlantic Ocean has been a key ingredient to a 33-percent increase in the number of tropical cyclones during this 40-year period, Murakami said."
The correlation is not causation here. This study only serves to reveal how absolutely hollowed out and myopic scientific inquiry as it is called today has become.
Tropical storm severity is driven by many factors among them a large factor has to do with solar forcing which is not at this time generally used or considered in forecasting, and which even when factored in with today's understanding is still largely underestimating and outright missing many significant pathways that energy from solar activity can dump straight into a cyclonic storm to rapidly strengthen and organized it into a strong hurricane. What's more earth's magnetic field which serves to redirect or dampen out many of the solar forcing events away from mid latitudes and more toward the polar regions has been declining for quite some time in a significant way. This means that solar forcing events that 200 years ago would not hit mid latitudes in a significant way are now able to reach down to these lower latitudes and thus dump energy into these cyclonic (and pre cyclonic) storm systems / depressions.