[Old Professer]

Not one hurricane hit Florida from 1952 to 1962, a period of high water temperature the study references.

Higher water temps alone are not reliable predictors of frequency or severity.

Subtracting higher water temperatures elsewhere from the measured data guarantees the remaining increase will not be attributable to the rest of the factors the study includes.

What sort of science is this?

[cogitator]

Not one hurricane hit Florida from 1952 to 1962, a period of high water temperature the study references.

Does that indicate that the 1950s weren't an active hurricane period? It can be an active period and yet still spare Florida.

Higher water temps alone are not reliable predictors of frequency or severity.

What sort of science is this?

Published. It's in Geophysical Research Letters.

I agree.