There have been 12 cyclones with death counts greater than 100,000 in recorded history. Almost half of them occurred during the 19th century. The two deadliest cyclones of the 20th century occurred during the 1970’s, and were blamed by climatologists on global cooling at the time.
US hurricane strikes also peaked during the 19th century
HURDAT Re-analysis Chronological List of All Hurricanes
People who claim that hurricanes are getting worse – have absolutely no clue what they are talking about.
The 1737 Calcutta “record” sounds a bit dodgy:
http://bssa.geoscienceworld.org/content/84/5/1650.abstract
The 1737 Calcutta earthquake and cyclone evaluated
“Official accounts of the disaster submitted to the East India Company headquarters in London list 3000 fatalities and omit mention of an earthquake. .. the following issues need to be resolved: the discrepancy between the 1737 urban population of Calcutta (<20,000) and the number of claimed fatalities, the difficulty in distinguishing between damage from shaking and hurricane force winds and flooding that occurred during the same night.."
Has anybody told President Obama about this?