The great smog of 1952?

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2011/08/31 09:17:14 (permalink)

The great smog of 1952?


I was reading about the term "London Fog" and stumbled on this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_1952


Have you ever heard of it?


best regards,
mike


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    Re:The great smog of 1952? 2011/08/31 09:34:27 (permalink)
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    I was reading about the term "London Fog" and stumbled on this:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_1952


    Have you ever heard of it?


    best regards,
    mike

    Yes I've heard of it, my Ma and Pa lived in Streatham at the time and they talked about it.

    London didn't get it's nickname 'The Smoke' for nothing.

    It's a visibly cleaner place these days.  With advances in technology the smog has got much more subtle looking.

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    Re:The great smog of 1952? 2011/08/31 09:40:06 (permalink)
    I'm kinda glad I missed it.

    :-)


    The story fascinated me.



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    Re:The great smog of 1952? 2011/08/31 16:07:16 (permalink)
    I've heard that Pittsburgh was about the same. At times, will all the steel furnaces running, the smoke was so heavy it was dark in the city at noon, and the smoke has stained the stone on some of the older buildings. 

    We have come a long way in this country in cleaning up the air and the environment but you'd never know that by listening to the environmentalists. 

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    Re:The great smog of 1952? 2011/09/01 01:20:25 (permalink)
    Didn't one of the three rivers around Pittsburgh catch fire even?  Yeah, that's pretty dirty!

     
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    Re:The great smog of 1952? 2011/09/01 08:08:32 (permalink)
    I believe it did.... talk about toxic huh? 

    It's been the same thing here in NC... with the rivers in some places.... not combustible, but just dead from the chemicals from the mills and things.... but the state environmental agency has cracked down, the plants and mills have cleaned up their act and the rivers have returned to being alive with fish again. 

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    Re:The great smog of 1952? 2011/09/01 08:41:59 (permalink)
    That's because North Carolina's the streams are stocked with fish bred to help the tourism industry.

    The uplands of North Carolina are still being ravaged by acid rain and that is why your ancient forest of mountain top balsam is turning into bare rocky tops with dead balsam snags and thickets of berry bushes.

    Many of the power plants in the region are owned by a group with a powerful lobby and so many of their power plants have waivers to emit more stuff than the industry at large. They are lucky that enviromentalists are so unpopular... it helps their lobby efforts.

    The result is that we all get to share National Parks and National Forests that are slowly being denuded and turned into patches of scraggly dead fall by chemical ware fare.

    The only good part is that when I get to the top of the peaks I now have a terrific view of the smog gathering down in the low lands. :-)


    One thing is for sure... I think it's safe to say we are all glad that it's not as bad as it was.


    best regards,
    mike




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