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#GreatSmog's lesson - Take action! Posts about news, Parliamentary activity and scientific research from days *exactly* 70 years ago… Read with astonishment and sometimes a smile. More: https://cleanair.london/health/great-smog/ #AirPollution #Climate #Health #History #Histodons #Justice #Law #News #Science #Weather
Great Smog’s 70th anniversary – Take action! – Clean Air in London

Dec 10, 2022 at 11:55amWeb
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#GreatSmog's 70th anniversary: #TakeAction! | Letter to the Editor of The Times on Wednesday 10 December 1952:

#LondonFog

“We have devised and produced miracles. This great city endures the handicap of dense fog. Is there no remedy?”

Ernest Fisk

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Great Smog’s 70th anniversary – Take action! – Clean Air in London

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#GreatSmog's 70th anniversary: #TakeAction! | Letter to the Editor of The Times on 12 December 1952:

#CostOfFog

“I paid a heavy price for my neighbours' indulgence in solid fuel burning. My all-electric house commits no nuisance."

Caroline Haslett

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Great Smog’s 70th anniversary – Take action! – Clean Air in London

Show threadCleanAirLondonDec 16, 2022
#GreatSmog's 70th anniversary and greatest lesson: Take action! | Two replies to #CarolineHaslett's letter to The Times on 16 December 1952:
#CostOfFog
"All-electric houses rely on coal-fired power stations."
"Blame vehicle fumes too."
https://cleanair.london/health/great-smog/
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Great Smog’s 70th anniversary – Take action! – Clean Air in London

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#GreatSmog's 70th anniversary and lesson: Take action! Letter to The Times on 17 December 1952 responding to #CarolineHaslett's plea for 'all-electric houses':
#CostOfFog
"We live under the rain of grits from #Battersea power station..."
#AirPollution #Climate #Health #History #Histodons #Justice #News #Science
Show threadCleanAirLondonDec 17, 2022
#GreatSmog's 70th anniversary and lesson: Take action!
House of Commons report in The Times on Wednesday 17 December 1952
#LondonFogDeaths
Q: Mr Driberg asked how many persons died of bronchial and other ailments in London as a result of the recent severe fog
A: Mr Macleod in written reply: 2,062 in w/e 6/12 vs 1,543 in 1951
Show threadCleanAirLondonDec 19, 2022
#GreatSmog's 70th anniversary and lesson: Take action!
Oxford letter to The Times on 19 December 1952 responding to #CarolineHaslett's plea for 'all-electric houses'.
#CostOfFog
"OK in special cases e.g. for professional women." "But it would cost too much." "Better to buy new coal stoves."
https://cleanair.london/health/great-smog/
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Great Smog’s 70th anniversary – Take action! – Clean Air in London

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#GreatSmog's 70th anniversary and lesson - Take action!
Headlines in The Times on Saturday 20 December 1952:
"Inquiry into London fog suggested [by @epuk5's Technical Committee]"
"Abnormal pollution"
Announced in House of Commons (18/12): 4,703 deaths w/e 13 Dec vs 1,852 (1951)
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#GreatSmog's 70th anniversary and lesson: Take action!
Letter to The Times on Monday 22 December 1952 responding to #CarolineHaslett's plea for 'all-electric houses':
#CostOfFog
"New stoves won't work. There's no smokeless fuel. It's all hopeless."
https://cleanair.london/health/great-smog/
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Great Smog’s 70th anniversary – Take action! – Clean Air in London

Show threadCleanAirLondonDec 23, 2022
#GreatSmog's 70th anniversary and lesson: Take action!
#CarolineHaslett's letter to The Times on Tuesday 23 December 1952 responded to others after her plea for all-electric houses:
#CostOfFog
"Electricity is the solution. No-one has a better one!"
https://cleanair.london/health/great-smog/
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Great Smog’s 70th anniversary – Take action! – Clean Air in London

Show threadBensGreenGamingAcDec 17, 2022
@cleanairlondon Replace electric houses for electric cars or heat pumps and the arguments sound very familiar.
Show threadTheurv 🏳️‍🌈Dec 16, 2022
@cleanairlondon moral of the story - source control matters, power generation matters, vehicles matter- and left unabated we all suffer and point fingers but collective action can do a lot of good for our collective well being
Show threadK-DogDec 12, 2022

@cleanairlondon I remember that well and other smogs.

I remember one time driving through Piccadilly Circus, my father at the wheel and an elderly neighbour walking in front of the car, trying to direct us. We could hear buses and other vehicles but couldn’t see any of them.

It took hours to get back home and to Shepherds Bush!