It does indeed seem to be the Ivo way...cherry-pick comments from the few denialists with plausible-sounding credentials still out there..Bastardi being one. Then we have Ryan Maue, who it turns out is a adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, that hyper-free-market flag-waving libertarian thinktank founded by mega-polluters and arch-conservative greedheads the Koch Brothers.

Then of course there's the selective cherry-picking of data. Vegter references Dr. Philip Klotzbach and quotes hurricane stats at landfall in the USA. But here's Klotzbach on Irma earlier today:

https://webcms.colostate.edu/tropical/media/sites/111/2017/09/Hurricane-Irma-Records.pdf

which includes the record for the longest any cyclone anywhere in the world has maintained winds of 185mph, longest consecutive days as a category 5 hurricane in the satellite era, and 2nd ever strongest winds. 

Note also 2 of the worst 24 are this year. No other year has 2. This is the trend as predicted by non-denialists.