What an amazingly uniformed comment, that absolutely falsifies the truth.
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Hurricanes are about water vapour cycle thermodynamics: they are enormous heat engines that pick up energy in the form of latent heat in evaporated water, and then convert it into kinetic and potential energy as the water vapour rises, condenses, and then spreads out at the top of the storm.
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It is the enthalpy (i.e., surface temperature) of water, and the rate of evaporation (i.e., wind speed) that matter.
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A presentation by K. Emanuel at MIT is informative. (There are dozens of papers that refute EdB1's nonsense).  There is chart of power dissipation v. absolute sea surface temperature.  Things have been getting worse.
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The average Hurricane power dissipation has doubled since 1970.  Both the frequency and average severity has clearly increased since 1950.
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Whether hurricanes make landfall is random.  They die when the energy supply is turned off, i.e., they reach colder water, or landfall.