Heat dome blue — the new summer color
By
Joe Bastardi
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July 6th, 2026
Instead of the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer, we’ve got a new summer color — HEAT DOME BLUE.
Even bluer than yesterday. Hot weather patterns have much less haze now in the east (some of them, you couldn’t see the sun till 8 am). A tribute to the U.S. cleaning a true pollutant out of the sky… SO2.
Which got me to thinking…
Let’s ask the AI to isolate SO2 and WV increases: The idea is that, even without radiative forcing, these factors can explain much of the warming. I am simply doing what the CAGW crowd does. They will dismiss the simple answer and then dump everything on CO2. Well, let’s forget CO2, since we know the bands are saturated, there are diminishing returns, and it needs warming (increased OLR) to aid warming. In other words, treat CO2 the same way the CO2 pushers treat everything else that could challenge their idea: minimize it. Let’s see what this method gives us, and how I can stack the answer the same way they do.
https://www.cfact.org/2026/07/06/heat-dome-blue-the-new-summer-color/
