While climate change continues to be felt concretely, especially in recent years, researchers have announced that even the smell of snow has changed sharply due to climate change. The reason for this is actually very simple: Snow absorbs molecules in the air.
Climate change, which is the most serious problem of our age and future and indirectly kills more people every year, continues to show itself even in unpredictable places. Climate change has become so tangible that scientists have recently become increasingly concerned with climate change. even the smell of snow has changed they announced.
Clinical neuroscience professor Johan Lundstorm, who introduced himself as an ‘odor researcher’ from the Monell Chemical Sense Center in the USA, explained that the smell of snow reflects the pollution in the air. Especially the upper layer of the abdomen taking compounds from the air Lundstorm stated that some molecules in these compounds are harder on the nose than others.
So how does climate change change the smell of snow?
The explanation that fully links this relationship to climate change was made by Parisa A. Ariya from McGill University. Aria, with the warming of the land and air stated that the circulation and density of air molecules increased. For this reason, he stated that climate change affects how snow smells.
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Ariya said the snow serves as a ‘snapshot of an atmospheric process’, meaning it directly reflects everything that happens in the air. The research conducted by the scientist in 2017 showed that the pollution from gasoline engine exhaust how it was absorbed by the snow had shown. The worst part is that this pollution was transferred to the water and soil as the snow melted.