>scientists have no proof that hurricanes are hitting land more often For the curious, data by decade is here (for the US): https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.s

>scientists have no proof that hurricanes are hitting land more often For the curious, data by decade is here (for the US): https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml This topic sometimes comes up because there are graphs that show the total number of hurricanes increasing, but the criticism is that shows bias because over time we began to observe more hurricanes that never made landfall. [edit] and here is by-year, up to 2018. https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/E23.html https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/E23.html By a quick check it seems these numbers do not match the landfall-by-decade counts above. But these are labeled "impacts/landfalls", so maybe there is some categorization difference? Is an "impact" different from a "landfall"? [edit 2] here's one difference: * - Indicates that the hurricane center did not make a U.S. landfall (or substantially weakened before making landfall), but did produce the indicated hurricane-force winds over land. In this case, central pressure is given for the time that the hurricane winds along the coast were the strongest.