I use to be a skeptic. You deniers have pushed me into the warmist camp!

I'd even go as far as once being a denier, but that was only because of the pause. Hey, brainwashing works and I was proud to be a republican as Bush was convincing.
There's long term natural patterns that control hurricane activity...The Nao +/- cycles have a huge impact, the enso has huge impacts and the general meteorological set-up can be said to do the same. Because Katrina, Sandy, Ike, Isabel, Floyd, Hugo, Andrew, Gilbert, etc can occur slightly more often doesn't mean that we can't have a period of extremely low hurricane activity. The 1910's had extemely slow seasons like 1914 and the 80's had the same with 82, 83, 84, 86 being just as slow as this year.
This season isn't over, Danny was a major hurricane! Erika is possibly following! Most of the big hurricanes of 2010, 2011 and 2012 want into Mexico, central America or out to sea. Meteorological pattern is very important. 2004, 2005 and 2008 had patterns that favored American landfalls.