GEOG 3EC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Great Smog Of London, Soil Contamination, The New York Times
8 Mar 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Lecture 12 the great smog in london. What happened: october 1948: smog made worse by temperature inversion. In pennsylvania, usa: kept the cool dense air at ground pollution; couldn(cid:495)t disperse, ny times: (cid:498)one of the worst air pollution disasters in the nation(cid:495)s history(cid:499, 20 people died, and 7000 became sick. Slide 4: the great london smog of december 1952. Germany and then usa: uk 1926: smoke abatement act, no serious action to reduce the use of coal, first major smog damage and was a warning sign that something needed to be addressed. In london, long history of the smog and fogs that were triggered by pollution: graph that shows the foggy days. The 1948 donora smog: donora is part of the rust belt in usa, lots of metal industries, established there b/c of the coal mines and cheap abundance of materials that were closed by. In (cid:883)9(cid:888)(cid:882)s both plants closed by us steel.
