Heavy smog begins to hover over London, England, on December 5, 1952. It persists for five days, leading to the deaths of at least 4,000 people.
It was a Thursday afternoon when a high-pressure air mass stalled over the Thames River Valley. When cold air arrived suddenly from the west, the air over London became trapped in place. The problem was exacerbated by low temperatures, which caused residents to burn extra coal in their furnaces. The smoke, soot and sulfur dioxide from the area’s industries along with that from cars and consumer energy usage caused extraordinarily heavy smog to smother the city. By the morning of December 5, there was a visible pall cast over hundreds of square miles.
The Great Smog of 1952 became so thick and dense that by December 7 there was virtually no sunlight and visibility was reduced to five yards in many places. Eventually, all transportation in the region was halted, but not before the smog caused several rail accidents, including a collision between two trains near London Bridge. The worst effect of the smog, however, was the respiratory distress it caused in humans and animals, including difficulty breathing and the vomiting of phlegm. One of the first noted victims was a prize cow that suffocated on December 5. An unusually high number of people in the area, numbering in the thousands, died in their sleep that weekend.
It is difficult to calculate exactly how many deaths and injuries were caused by the smog. As with heat waves, experts compare death totals during the smog to the number of people who have died during the same period in previous years. The period between December 4 and December 8 saw such a marked increase in death in the London metropolitan area that the most conservative estimates place the death toll at 4,000, with some estimating that the smog killed as many as 12,000 people.
On December 9, the smog finally blew away. In the aftermath of this incident, the British government passed more stringent regulations on air pollution and encouraged people to stop using coal to heat their homes. Despite these measures, a similar smog 10 years later killed approximately 100 Londoners.
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I wonder how many people die in that part of the world on a five day average? I will guess it could be about a 1000 a day.
If only they were vaxxed it wouldn’t have been so bad
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If only Charles could have reached the microphone to tell his subjects what to give up to save his country.
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Nope.
It was chemtrails.
Climate change was ultimately determined to be the sole cause of the human generated smoke.
It was a smog attack from Russia.
They secretly infiltrated NG Britain on the ferry, and spiked all the gasoline in the entire country with an evil gasoline additive called Boris and Natasha’s Revenge.
The additive was supposed to kill millions, but the plan failed because they miscalculated and didn’t add enough of the B&N Revenge into London’s fuel supplies.
Now this only happens in 3rd world countries like China, India, etc. The first world has done an OUTSTANDING job of addressing pollution since the 1950s, but gets ZERO CREDIT for these long-overdue changes (pollution of any sort is a trespass on others and should always have been seen as a property rights violation). Meanwhile, a new, likely un-controlled coal plant goes on line every week in China. Thankfully the ruling class knows that “their” atmosphere stays over there and never comes here, so nothing to worry about. The only important thing is that we create “zero emissions” over here, regardless of how many emissions our “energy policies” create over there.
You “think” like a Karen.
We had those wild fires a few years back (6?) in California, and I legit got very ill from it. They closed schools and businesses for a couple days. I can believe this.
Two weeks later there was an outbreak in white lung disease.