Hurricanes defying conventional science.

I googled on "Hurricane Epsilon". I didn't find any web site that was saying anything as alarmist as your posts. Granted, I didn't read them all.You are way overreacting. It's a failure of yours. You repeatedly jump to absurd conclusions on the merest hint. We see this in your NDE thread; we see it in your "ID mechanism" thread; we see it in your "adaptive mutations" PNT.Get a grip. Stop acting like chicken little. The sky is not falling.

Note that it defied expectations, which isn't at all the same as defying science. As far as I know, a water temperature of 70 would not sap energy, and could add energy. What saps energy is the raining that releases some of the energy from the storm. At 70, this energy loss would not be fully replaced by the moisture due to the water.Presumably in this case there was less raining than usual, so the storm could retain energy for a longer period of time.

In the midwest we regularly see storms intensifying over land, and often that land is colder than 70.

Both involve similar forces. Sure, it's because they lose moisture content in the form of rain. But the moisture does not have to come directly from the ocean below. It can arrive in a colliding mass of moist air.