Pass the Green New Deal or Snow won’t smell the same?!
“Snow has a scent, and researchers say that scent depends on what’s in the ground and the air. And as both the atmosphere and the land are getting warmer, the scent of snow is getting stronger.” …
“Climate change is affecting the way snow smells, said Parisa A. Ariya, a chemist and chair of the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department at McGill University. As the ground and air get warmer, that encourages the circulation — and intensity — of the odor molecules.” …
“The increases in temperature have been suggested to increase the toxicity of certain contaminants and enhance the chemical reaction rates and degradation processes,” Ariya said. “Snow has a scent, and researchers say that scent depends on what’s in the ground and the air. And as both the atmosphere and the land are getting warmer, the scent of snow is getting stronger.”
By: Marc Morano – Climate Depot
February 7, 2022 6:21 PM
Climate change is altering the smell of snow https://t.co/C86gt6JCxM
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 5, 2022
Climate change is altering the smell of snow
Its scent is getting stronger as both the atmosphere and the land get warmer, researchers say
By Dawn Fallik February 5, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. EST
How would you describe the scent of winter? Unlike spring, summer and fall, which have strongly defined aromas (flowers in bloom, beaches, decaying leaves), the current season is marked by the scent of nothing. Nothing’s growing. Nothing’s dying. It’s a kind of olfactory pause.But snow has a scent, and researchers say that scent depends on what’s in the ground and the air. And as both the atmosphere and the land are getting warmer, the scent of snow is getting stronger.
Johan Lundstrom, a professor of clinical neuroscience who describes himself as a “smell researcher” at Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, said because snow’s smell reflects the impurities in the air, the flakes in Wisconsin smell different from snow in Sweden, and from snow in a city. Lundstrom said that people notice smells more in the summer because the humid and warmer air intensifies odor molecules, in the same way perfume smells more intense and different on the skin than when it is sprayed in the air. But the cold and dry air of winter makes for a “poor odor environment.”
…Climate change is affecting the way snow smells, said Parisa A. Ariya, a chemist and chair of the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department at McGill University. As the ground and air get warmer, that encourages the circulation — and intensity — of the odor molecules.
“The increases in temperature have been suggested to increase the toxicity of certain contaminants and enhance the chemical reaction rates and degradation processes,” Ariya said.
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Is he just smelling the wonderful scents of Philly? Now that the planet is getting colder, is it just getting worse? Just a few questions today.
Imagine being so OBSESSED with CC that you imagine all these dreaded things, like monsters under the bed. Pitiful alarmists.
Watch out where those huskies go, and don’t you smell that yellow snow!
Sorry John, I posted up above before I saw your same quote.
All I smell is fishy “journalism”.
Lunk-heads at the Washpo. Inside the beltway there probably IS a difference in the way ‘snow smells’, and its because of a psychosomatic-based illness, as in, “its all in their heads”.
My thought is that the smell of The Washing Post is getting much stronger
As the old joke goes, “Careful not step on wapoo!”
Once you use it to line the cat box.
The only thing one has to keep in mind is not to eat snow if it is any color but white — “white as the driven snow!’
Seriously,
Is there nothing they won’t stoop to?
Sorry guys, but I think this might be my fault. A few months ago, I made a comment that before long, parfumiers would be claiming that CO2 would make their scents smell sour. I meant it as a joke, but it looks like the concept fired a moron’s synapse. Please accept my sincere apologies.
Just when you actually believe we’ve hit peak stupidity…
I already knew not to eat the yellow snow.
Now I know not to smell the yellow snow.
Thanks, WaPo!
PS Wapo, please stop putting out brown snowjobs.
These American media oligarchs are worse than the Russian version.
As I recall, snow is made of water, defined as H2O, which is odorless and colorless.
So it must be the “odor molecules”, whatever those are, that are doing the changing due to human caused global warming.
Of course, one would also suspect that non human caused global warming would change those “odor molecules” as well.
But then, that would require knowing the exact amount of warming humans are contributing in order to tell the difference and as I recall, that has never been quantified. So I think the conclusions of Parisa A. Ariya, chemist and chair of the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department at McGill University are premature.
Smell is one of those things that is strongly remembered in the brain. And 50 years of smelling snow, I have smelt no change what-so-ever…
If we don’t have any more snow, we won’t have the problem.
Where I live it snows when we have an upslope. That means the wind is coming from the east and brings the wonderful aroma of the feed lots out there. So, when it smells like snow, well it smells like BS!!!
I certainly hope this research was funded with taxpayer money.
Thinking we were promised total lack of snow by this time. Not a flake.
Yes, something smells, more likely something rotten in the state(ments) of Gore et Al.
Am I wrong to assume we paid for this crap?
Let me ask then. They are saying that the snow that falls on the peak of Mt. Everest is less odiferous than the snow that falls on lower mountain peaks where the temp runs 1 or 2 deg. C higher?
Something sure smells bad, but it’s not snow.
So, we’re back to climate change = global warming again.
Nice, since the warming trend is unchanged since the Little Ice Age.
Can we stop the f###ing up of the world’s economy in the name of global warming now?
Sounds like some people have been sniffing the other white powder.
Oh. My. God. Just when you think they can’t possibly get any dumber, they do.
Sounds like one of Greta’s extra-sensorial capabilities…
The snow-tasters who wrote this article to WaPo probably had masterclasses with her.
Per the immortal Lynyrd Skynyrd:
“Ooh-ooh that smell
Can’t ya smell that smell
Ooh-ooh that smell
The smell of death’s around you”
New international anthem for the Warmunist Movement, apparently.