“Zero hurricanes made landfall in the continental United States this year—the first time this has happened since 2015. And while hurricanes in the North Atlantic were 9 percent more intense this year compared to the 1991-2020 average, throughout the entire Northern Hemisphere, hurricane intensity was 19 percent lower than usual,” notes The Doomslayer.
The falling number of hurricanes contradicts activist groups like the Environmental Defense Fund and Union of Concerned Scientists, who claim climate change makes hurricanes more frequent and destructive.
A news article notes: “For the first time in a decade, the continental United States experienced no hurricane landfalls…Globally…2025 will end below average (since 1971) for total ACE and ACE per hurricane.”
A Wall Street Journal article notes that “The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season ended on Sunday, and not a single hurricane made landfall in the continental U.S. this year. This is the first such quiet year since 2015; an average of around two hurricanes strike the U.S. mainland annually. You’d think this would be cause for celebration—or at least curiosity about what role, if any, global warming played. Instead there has been resounding silence.” By contrast, “Dig into past coverage, and you’ll find climate framing in hurricane coverage dating back to the mid-2000s—tying intense storms and active seasons again and again to global warming. These stories overflow with experts declaring each event a harbinger of climate doom, backed by fresh attribution studies. Yet when reality bucks this narrative, no one makes the connection.”
