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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Snow is frozen water.
Water: A clear, colorless, odorless, and tasteless liquid,
Obviously liquid water can have smells, depending upon what is dissolved or suspended in it (see wine, beer, pee, cleaning fluids, etc. etc.). Presumably snow can too, at least from suspended solids (there should be little to no dissolved solute in snow that can be detected, since snow is vaporized liquid water that has condensed and frozen). But because snow is cold, the suspended volatiles that may be in it, and that make up what our olfactory senses can detect, are are going to be relatively immobile and have low vapor pressure, so there is very little smell in snow.
if it’s 20F or 30F the snow may smell different. But 20F now and 20F in 1950 would smell the same. This idiot talks as though there is a background temperature that is rising so 20F now is not the same as 20F in 1950.
So basically the scientists have a shiny new instrument capable of detecting odors that even dogs can’t detect
And we’re supposed to take the scientists seriously
Volatile chemical compounds evaporate more easily at higher temperatures, who knew? Well other than every high school chemistry student.
“April fools day” came early this year.
More alarmist claims without evidence
Who actually doles out money to study this!
Oh no
Oh no
Don’t eat the yellow snow
Since having original COVID early 2020 and a very mild Omircon this past Christmas….. snow just smells fishy because of climate change.
If they’re smelling their snow, they’re doing something wrong.
At this point, what difference does it make? Snow will be a thing of the past in ____ (fill in the blank) years, right?
‘Self-anointed’ Main Stream Media — Bah Humbug…..
The first flush of rain on a hot summer’s day is due to the first raindrops turning to steam and lifting some of the street surface pollutants up into the air.
If snow has a smell at all, (and I certainly haven’t smelled it) it probably has something to do with pollen or soot.
Well, as long as it doesn’t smell like Gwyneth Paltrow’s … er… candles, I’d say all is well.
Snow is as odourless as anything can be. Fresh snow hides the smells of the forests. Skiing in the forest after a snowfall has given me a glimpse of how a dog can experience the world. Suddenly I pick up the smell of cloth. Nobody is here, but I sense a trail of scent. Somebody was here a few minutes ago. And sure enough, soon I overtake the fellow skier. The human nose can surely pick up the slightest smell, but unlike that of a dog it’s very bad at distinguishing them. Only the odourless snow makes it easy.
Beyond parody!
This is just flat hysterical. So, how can this even happen? I mean, if it’s getting “warmer,” how come there’s even snow around to smell. LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!