Is climate change causing hurricanes

I am not a climate change denier. The planet overall gets warmer every year. Wild animals are dying as a result. The Oceans are becoming saturated with carbon dioxide.  It is happening according to science inquiry and proof, but it is still a theory. But like any scientific theory it must be proven to be falsifiable. Statements and theories that are not falsifiable are unscientific.  In other words an outlier can determine that a scientific theory is false. For example, at one time it was believed that all swans are white therefore all swans will always be white. That is until black swans were seen. Hence, this outlier turned that theory on its head and forced some new inquiry and theory. The scientific philosopher Karl Popper claimed that in order for a theory to be scientific there must be limits to theory and that it must be part of the logical cornerstone of scientific inquiry. Otherwise a theory that is considered ironclad and unchanging is pseudo science. 

So to my main point.  It's not as if catastrophic weather events hadn't occurred before in human history. We can go back to some horrid events before climate change had a scientific basis and fostered theories that became part of the public imagination.  Yet these days somehow every miserable death dealing, excessive rebuilding cost weather event is casually attributed to climate change by many. Are these events more frequent?  No they are not. Some years have always been worse or better than others.  For example in 1839 it was estimated that a cyclone killed up to 300,000 people in India. The nine of the ten worst U.S. hurricanes occured before global warming was added to our list of woes.

1900 Great Galveston Hurricane
1928 OkeeChobee Hurricane
2005 Hurricane Katrina
1893 Chenière Caminada Hurricane
1893 Sea Islands Hurricane
1881 Georgia/South Carolina Hurricane
1967 Hurricane Audrey
1935 Great Labor Day Hurricane (Islamorada)
1856 Last Island Hurricane
1926 Great Miami Hurricane)

These disasters these days certainly cost more to fix their destruction.   In terms of hurricanes more people are building and living along coasts than ever before. So naturally it will be awful for them. How much can be attributed to the media and their experts constantly saying "we can't say definitively that it is caused by climate change," thereby leaving the door open to speculation. Yet no hurricane historically has ever exceeded 190 mph, a category 5. Are they getting worse? Consider that a no.  And what of the reporters standing in the blasting wind and pouring rain with ocean breakers behind them ---what is the point? To entertain us? It's bad! But these days you've had ample opportunity to know a hurricane is coming your way. Prepare. Seek shelter. Stay indoors where it is safe.  And for God sake will the media stop giving us second by second reports that don't change second by second. This is why the National Weather Service gives a new report only every three hours and that usually coincides with a hurricane hunter plane flying through the storm. Sure one could change the channel except all your friends are talking about it with the surety that they are just as knowledgeable as climate scientists. 

And then there's the politicians. And the climate deniers and the climate absolutists. So much of it makes an unschooled largely ignorant public go in circles. There will always be sides. Maybe that's human nature. There are people who still believe the earth is flat, that the moon landings were all staged, that some super being created the earth, the solar system, the galaxies and the universe in 7 days, that the Judeo-Christian bible is the only law, that white is the superior race, that taking vitamin supplements will make up for the nutrition we don't get in processed food, that vaccinations cause autism, that might makes right and so on. (Not to mention "the check is in the mail")

We rely on truth to help us through our lives. An interesting quote from a classic 1958 science fiction movie called "The Fly" was uttered by a character played by Vincent Price. He said "The search for truth is our most important endeavor yet it is our most dangerous." I'll take the danger in seeking the truth because that is all I can believe.