My grandad was born in it. On the way to the hospital the ambulance driver had to get out to ask for directions because he couldn't tell where they were. My great gran loved telling that story
how did that affect his health? I'm a med student preparing a presentation on this, can you maybe explain a bit about how it was and what consequences it had? It'd be amazing to get information from someone who's heard about it
Back in the 1950s in Lincoln (England), factories belched out black smoke that hung permanently over the city. Stone buildings like churches had a covering of 2-5 cms of hard, black gunk. It was only after the Clean Air Act that Lincoln's buildings could be cleaned, and now there's no comparison between how they looked back then and how they look now. I don't know how people could have lived with that for so long; I'm told the smoke and blackened buildings gave the city a dark, depressing feel.
Pittsburgh used to be like that. When they started cleaning the soot off buildings, people were amazed to discover those buildings had different colors! Then when I visited London in1978, I was surprised to see Tower Bridge all nice and clean.
Grace Lui But wait, Benedict Cumberbatch is Sherlock... and also Smaug. This means London's Greatest Detective (and high functioning sociopath) is responsible for all those deaths!
I grew up in London and remember the smogs. The smog was so thick you could literally not see your hand if you held it in front of your face. One time when I was 13 they let us out of school early because the smog was so bad. The driver of the bus I took to get home got lost. The conductor was walking in front of the bus with a torch to to guide the driver, but he ended up taking us up a driveway into a church yard, where he told us we have to all get off. Luckily I found my way home somehow passing people who looked like ghosts, trying to cover my mouth and nose with my pullover to filter the dirty sooty air.
I love that pretty much universally the rest of the world would figure out, “huh this thing we’re doing is like really bad for us, let’s change it” after an amount of time, and then America sat there for an extra few decades with their arms crossed going “we’re not gonna listen to you, it isn’t that bad”.
1980 movie "The Fog" s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/9c/36/6b/9c366b1a027b5cf384ef6dc18521e22b.jpg "What you can't see won't hurt you... It'll kill you."
Note that these countries know it a problem and actually try to do something against it. But it a slow machinery where short term gains often win over long term ones. Hopefully, it will not take over a century for them to create a fix for the issue. By the way, China is quickly becoming a dominant power when it comes to zero emission transportation.
XingYu Liu No, it's China charging ahead regardless of the people it kills. The CCP figures they have plenty to spare. If they can save a few yuan skipping the safety of its workforce and do the job a little quicker, it's a win win for the CCP. So what if the smog they create can be seen in California and is literally off the top end of the pollution ratings scale. And who cares if millions of lives are cut short by poisons in the air. It's the price all developing countries have to pay (at least if they ignore what the rest of the world learned a century ago!!).
I don't know where u get the idea that CCP is not doing anything China is by far the biggest investor in clean energy and besides its really hypocritical for developed countries to criticise us since they pollute just as much during their development without any regard for lives.
I remember visiting London as a child and experiencing a smog. It smelt awful and at one stage my father could not read a street name so mum got out of the car and had to go right up to the post to be able to read the sign. The fog was really yellowish and horrible.
This shows how poor lawmakers are at taking action until its too late, when people are dying. The problem with climate change is that it will worsen decades after they step in and the after-effects might endanger humanity as a whole. The other thing that makes them step is our vote. The problem here is that not all countries are democracies.
Only shows that there's a first time for everything. For centuries, millennia, people had little control of their environment, and remained blind and/or indifferent to the effects they did have. The world seemed much bigger than the areas they were poisoning, and the idea of `running out of world' hadn't occurred to anyone yet. Nuclear weapons were a hell of a wake-up call [only a few years before this happened, btw].
Our votes are no guarantee, it also needs protests, effort from the average people. Protest the biggest pollutants. Protesting goes the furthest, it's gotten us a lot.
I was a primary school pupil in London at the time. Mum stopped me going to school after she realised how bad it was getting. She used to stuff rags in any gaps that were letting in the awful stuff.
The significant increase in pollution in London from the Industrial Revolution occurred in the beginning of the 1800s. That is when use of steam and also iron production really accelerated, and thus coal pollution increased significantly.
I know sulfuric acid sounds better, but SO2 plus H2O equals sulfurous acid, which is much weaker than sulfuric acid (H2SO4). Unless there was some kind of chemical reaction you guys didn't mention.
That is not the issue here. If it were something like a missing step in the reaction pathway, it would be ok, but in this case the details are important because this is one of the main process in which acid rain is formed and it's a subject in SAT related exams. What I mean is inaccuracy in college level information for the sake of brevity is ok, but this is basic stuff.
There is of course both sulfurous and sulfuric acid that results from dumping SO2 into the air. SO2 becomes SO3 though oxidization, which may happen though any number of means. One of the more common is reaction with ozone in the atmosphere (ozone is not JUST in the "ozone layer", but found in various altitudes, and increases also with added pollution). The air also contains NOx (NO and NO2 mostly) which is also an oxidizer (and part of pollution). Stories now say acid rain is becoming worse, mostly due to NOx, not SO2 at the moment. Completing the cycle to sulfur*ic* acid, SO3 combines with water to form H2SO4, which is sulfuric acid. NO2 combines with water to form HNO3 or nitric acid. I don't think I'd call the college level information inaccurate, because sulfuric acid IS formed, however, it clearly glosses over the details which require some goggling to find out. I found this helpful: sites.google.com/site/acidrain1project/#SULFURIC
I'd forgotten about the smog of '52 but, I do recall The Great Stink of '58. (And I don't mean that I remember it as if I was there; it took place in 1858.) I would be very interested in a follow up video to this fine presentation, that compares the two related events. The Stink of 1858 lasted through July and August of that year and simply would've had to have had a deleterious effect on the health of the residents of London.
a stink so bad that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had to get out ten minutes after starting a pleasure cruise, and the half-built Parliament's windows had to be scented up with lime because the river was just next door. or, as one paper put it, "Gentility of speech is at an end-it stinks..."
Fun story. Once I studied abroad in China, and one of the places the group stayed in was Beijing. For the first few days we were there, the sky was actually mostly blue and everything seemed fairly normal. Then one day, seemingly overnight, the sky turned brown and obviously smoggy. (When we went to visit a portion of the Great Wall up in the mountains, you could actually see the dome of smog blanketing the city.) We asked one of our Chinese instructors what was going on that the smog was so bad that day. She looked at us in genuine confusion and asked, "Oh is it bad today???" We thought the brown sky was weird, but it turned out that that was normal and we had just gotten lucky to actually see blue sky for a brief time.
I've been to Beijing a few times and it's crazy how overnight the smog can get so bad. The first time I visited, it was smoggy the first few days and then overnight it got clear. This last time I visited it was just the opposite.
China is closing a coal plant per day and investing tens of billions in solar power. They are canceled shipments of coal from North Korea. It's bizarro world where the USA increases the use of coal where China is a world leader in green energy!
When I was a kid in UK in the 1950's smogs were common. People died every year. We used to call them pea soupers. My mother frequently had to wash clothes several times, also the washing line would be coated in soot. You knew it was a bad one when you couldn't see your own outstretched hand (that isn't a joke). You could really taste the smoke in the air. At that time every house had one or more coal fires and Britain was still a major manufacturing centre, and of course every factory had it's chimney.
I can remember really thick fog in the UK even in the 1960`s. We were sent home from work as the buses would be taken off. As a child I remember the fog/smog being a yellow/grey colour when you looked up at the street lights.And it smelt awful.
Hey, mate, have you wondered about creating a video about another important event that took place in London in the 19th century? I'm talking about "The Great Stink of London of 1853". That's such an interesting part of Environmental History. Thanks for the video, you smashed it.
We tend to forget just how bad pollution was in the mid-20th Century. Amidst all the talks of whether or not environmental issues are really all that serious, we have actual historical records of times like this, when the air was so bad that it posed an immediate and readily-observable threat to people's lives. I'm sure part of the problem is that we just never hear about this. I certainly didn't learn about deadly air pollution in school.
I was there; I was 5. I remember that all you could see was vague blobby streetlights in a greenish-yellow soup. Fuzzy shadows of people would appear out of nowhere for a moment, then disappear. It was actually quite exciting for a 5-year-old.
It happened in the United States as well; in 1948, Donora, Pennsylvania, south east of Pittsburgh. For 5 days or so, around Halloween, a temperature inversion trapped industrial smoke, automobile exhaust and other pollutants in the air. It hung over the river valley and the town like a blanket. It was like night around the clock. Visibility was practically zero. It became quite serious. There was loss of life, especially the sick, the elderly and the very young. The steel mills kept on belching smoke in spite of the growing health crisis. It was said that the furnaces were too costly to shut down and then later restart once the inversion lifted. They finally relented, I believe, in the end and shut down when people started dying!! Look it up. It's a interesting story. Hank, you should produce a video on this, it would fit right in. Just a thought...
I mean, they are trying these days, but they have cities with enormous populations. It gets difficult. Still, they are currently making a better effort to reduce pollution than the U.S. is.
GreekPanda that is because individual lives are worth next to nothing, it is public outrage what organisations are afraid about, when a large enough among of people can no longer say it's not their problem.
The weird thing about China, is that when it (ie. the government) wants to do something, they get it done FAST. Physically, they could improve the pollution problem. But they won't. Because the benefit isn't worth it to them. To China, the nation comes before the people. Edit: Secondary benefit to human lives is public perception. ie. "Look how environmentally friendly we are. Ignore our past. We are now the leaders in green technology. Yay."
I remember when in lived in NYC during the 1960s, that by the day after it snowed the white snow would be covered with black stuff. As the days went by a black crust formed on the snow. Another thing was that all year long the windows were covered on the outside with dark gray sand, no matter how often you tried to clean them it came back before you knew it. Coal was used to heat apartment buildings back then. They would put a chute through a basement window and coal from the coal truck was loaded down the basement. When they burned it, the smoke would sometimes start out yellow, but then it always turned to black smoke that filled the sky.
I was born during that time, & my mother often told me about how when she was taken to hospital in labour, someone had to walk in front of the ambulance with a flaming torch so that they could see where they were going.
how did that affect your health? I'm a med student preparing a presentation on this, can you maybe explain a bit about how it was and what consequences it had? It'd be amazing to get information from someone who's experienced it
@@ValentiaTheLunatic I don't think it affected my health because in those days mothers were kept in hospital for at least a week to 10 days after giving birth. By the time we got out of the hospital the smog had cleared up.
@@catherinebirch2399 but didn't similar incidents happen later? Or was it just that one time? I'm reading articles and a lot of them mention respiratory problems of the children born in that time which are related to the smog
My mum told stories of the smogs; apparently you could get lost crossing the road. You'd get to the center of the road and you wouldn't be able to see either of the kerbs.
It wasn't just that they were burning coal. It was the type of coal. Post-war, solid, cleaner coal was used for industry, while homeowners were sold a cheaper coal that was basically dirt with coal in it, which produced a lot more airborne filth when burned.
You forgot another important U.S. event. www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donora_Smog_of_1948 The Donora Smog was one of the incidents where Americans recognized that exposure to large amounts of pollution can result in fatalities. The event is often credited for helping to trigger the clean-air movement in the United States, whose crowning achievement was the Clean Air Act of 1970,
When I was a little kid the Iron Curtain fell and National Geographic did some stories about pollution in the Eastern Bloc. There was one in the former Soviet Union by a German photographer named Gerd Ludwig. As a little kid those pictures and stories terrified me and made me eternally grateful to live a country with a strong environmental movement. The Soviets completely destroyed their environment in order to catch up with the West, which they never came close to achieving.
Correction, SO2 dont forma sulfuric acid when reacts with water, it forms sulfurus acid, H2SO3. SO3 on the other had, forms H2SO4 when mixed with water. When coal is burnind, the sulfur that is present forms both SO2 and SO3, forming both diferent acids when they are mixed with water.
Banana McStuffins 2 A more apt reference would be his repeal of the Clean Water Protections. That is literally allowing coal companies to dump their pollution into water streams.
fun fact: also because of the smog all the buildings where really dark at the time. to prevent the buckingham palace from darkening the outside walls where refurbished with a special marble (if i remember correctly) that the smog wouldn´t be able to stick to as easily..
And here we have a great example of an astonishingly ignorant creature. So ignorant in fact, that it cannot grasp the differences between a planned and timed event, and an archived video which is static in time.
What do you mean? I was just asking who wasn't here as early as they usually are because I refused to leave John's stream. And, I would also prefer if you did not call me ignorant, even for a joke.
ElChapo Junior Democrats would rather focus on the weather while letting Islamic Terrorists suckle on their tit while simultaneously taking their citizens freedom of speech.
The soot is the reason why the bricks of some London townhouses are grey or black, originally they would have been a yellowy colour owing to the colour of London clay.
When I lived in Hawaii, when the volcanoes erupt sometimes the wind blows the gasses and smoke particles over to Honolulu. Atmospheric moisture mixes in and we get days of what we call VOG.
Already knew of this because of the Netflix show "The Crown". This is how I fool myself into believing that when I spend days and nights binge watching I'm studying and not just throwing my time into the garbage bin.
The Great Smog of London
The Great Fire of London
The Great Flood of London
The Great Stink of London
Isn't London just GREAT
well I mean it is in Great Britain.
Now I understand the meaning behind 'Make America Great Again!'
Welcome to England. It sucks here.
*city
Urie!!! on Ice Lol i made the same commentthen saw yours
My grandad was born in it. On the way to the hospital the ambulance driver had to get out to ask for directions because he couldn't tell where they were. My great gran loved telling that story
Old man story activated
how did that affect his health? I'm a med student preparing a presentation on this, can you maybe explain a bit about how it was and what consequences it had? It'd be amazing to get information from someone who's heard about it
@Mel K It probably damaged his lungs and organs a bit
@@ValentiaTheLunatic wanna be friends?
@@thetechnoking sure
Back in the 1950s in Lincoln (England), factories belched out black smoke that hung permanently over the city. Stone buildings like churches had a covering of 2-5 cms of hard, black gunk. It was only after the Clean Air Act that Lincoln's buildings could be cleaned, and now there's no comparison between how they looked back then and how they look now. I don't know how people could have lived with that for so long; I'm told the smoke and blackened buildings gave the city a dark, depressing feel.
Like the rain hadn't been enough to make people depressed...
@@SatumainenOlento you act like London is constantly raining 😂 😂 😂 summer is stinking hot there
Pittsburgh used to be like that. When they started cleaning the soot off buildings, people were amazed to discover those buildings had different colors! Then when I visited London in1978, I was surprised to see Tower Bridge all nice and clean.
Where was Bilbo Baggins when Smaug killed 12,000 people in London?
Lol❤You know a fellow nerd when you see one.
Was it the way she moved her hips or the full battle-dress? No, something more subtle whispered me the secret nerdiness of that fair LARP attendee.
Grace Lui But wait, Benedict Cumberbatch is Sherlock... and also Smaug. This means London's Greatest Detective (and high functioning sociopath) is responsible for all those deaths!
He was stealing the Crown jewels from the tower of London; what to you expect from a professed burglar?
You should be asked "where was Bard?"
More importantly, where was Bard the Bowman?
I'm pretty sure I read it Frog not Fog from the notification
A frog that killed 12,000 would make for an amazing story lol
Mandela effect
Same
Battery low so phone auto dimmed, read 'frog', saw body count, impressed
I want to hear that story.
I grew up in London and remember the smogs. The smog was so thick you could literally not see your hand if you held it in front of your face. One time when I was 13 they let us out of school early because the smog was so bad. The driver of the bus I took to get home got lost. The conductor was walking in front of the bus with a torch to to guide the driver, but he ended up taking us up a driveway into a church yard, where he told us we have to all get off. Luckily I found my way home somehow passing people who looked like ghosts, trying to cover my mouth and nose with my pullover to filter the dirty sooty air.
Sounds like it was quite the experience! Thanks for sharing!
wow! What a story! I'm so sorry to hear you had to experience that though, I hope life has been better for you since then.
*"It turns out, turning the air into poison: not a good idea."*
Well, crumbs! There goes our entire economic model.
ikr. i think, stick it out a few thousand years and evolve to counter it... like an extremophile
😅😂we have nuclear heads just in case we have to hasten the suffering, but its slow death for now
i thought it said the frog that killed 12000 people... i thought of kermit the frog... dont know why
Not Kermit, but still a frog.
Tell Me This me too
Same!
Tell Me This your comments have been like top comment in like three videos I've watched today you got my subscription
omfg me too xdd
I love that pretty much universally the rest of the world would figure out, “huh this thing we’re doing is like really bad for us, let’s change it” after an amount of time, and then America sat there for an extra few decades with their arms crossed going “we’re not gonna listen to you, it isn’t that bad”.
The title is like something out of a campy horror movie from the 50's.
"The Fog That Killed London: It's Your Last Breath, Mate"
Isn't there a show coming out about killer fog soon?
the mist?
Yeah!
1980 movie "The Fog" s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/9c/36/6b/9c366b1a027b5cf384ef6dc18521e22b.jpg "What you can't see won't hurt you... It'll kill you."
This is pretty much China and India today, to a lesser extent. So yeah, 40% of the world's population is still suffering from it.
Moritz yes and their pollution goes to other countries
Note that these countries know it a problem and actually try to do something against it. But it a slow machinery where short term gains often win over long term ones. Hopefully, it will not take over a century for them to create a fix for the issue.
By the way, China is quickly becoming a dominant power when it comes to zero emission transportation.
Moritz L It's the price all developing countries have to pay.
XingYu Liu No, it's China charging ahead regardless of the people it kills. The CCP figures they have plenty to spare. If they can save a few yuan skipping the safety of its workforce and do the job a little quicker, it's a win win for the CCP. So what if the smog they create can be seen in California and is literally off the top end of the pollution ratings scale. And who cares if millions of lives are cut short by poisons in the air. It's the price all developing countries have to pay (at least if they ignore what the rest of the world learned a century ago!!).
I don't know where u get the idea that CCP is not doing anything China is by far the biggest investor in clean energy and besides its really hypocritical for developed countries to criticise us since they pollute just as much during their development without any regard for lives.
Is air pollution dangerous? Fog yeah!
Hahaha
I just came from a SciShow video. The puns under the comment section are always great. 😂
It's far harbor all over again T-T
corny
Please kill me
Two years later I’m still laughing 😝
I remember visiting London as a child and experiencing a smog. It smelt awful and at one stage my father could not read a street name so mum got out of the car and had to go right up to the post to be able to read the sign. The fog was really yellowish and horrible.
At the end he said, "you're great" it really hit me. Ty hank
Compliments can make people's days :)
*The suns a deadly laser*
Not now there's a blanket
Nooo, its made out of smog
Um isn't the sun the the opposit light source than a laser, being non coherent
The clouds are only protecting us from the sun because they want to kill us themselves!
You can make a religion out of that.
Muzik Bike No. Don't.
Oh, f*ck, now everything's dead. Wait no, here are the survivors.
my grandad died in the the great smog of london :( never got to meet him
Ronathon 69 my grandfather died of a stroke, never got to see him either...
@@yemyem3242 same but got to meet him #andioop
Am I the only one who actually read the title right?
Kiana Bencharski yes
I saw the frog that killed 12,000 people
Kiana B no.
Edmundo vasquez Same
Yes
Silent Hill looks great
Vinícius Cabral I thought of the tv show, (or was a movie,) The Mist.
This shows how poor lawmakers are at taking action until its too late, when people are dying.
The problem with climate change is that it will worsen decades after they step in and the after-effects might endanger humanity as a whole.
The other thing that makes them step is our vote. The problem here is that not all countries are democracies.
Only shows that there's a first time for everything. For centuries, millennia, people had little control of their environment, and remained blind and/or indifferent to the effects they did have. The world seemed much bigger than the areas they were poisoning, and the idea of `running out of world' hadn't occurred to anyone yet.
Nuclear weapons were a hell of a wake-up call [only a few years before this happened, btw].
Our votes are no guarantee, it also needs protests, effort from the average people. Protest the biggest pollutants. Protesting goes the furthest, it's gotten us a lot.
I was a primary school pupil in London at the time. Mum stopped me going to school after she realised how bad it was getting. She used to stuff rags in any gaps that were letting in the awful stuff.
The significant increase in pollution in London from the Industrial Revolution occurred in the beginning of the 1800s. That is when use of steam and also iron production really accelerated, and thus coal pollution increased significantly.
I know sulfuric acid sounds better, but SO2 plus H2O equals sulfurous acid, which is much weaker than sulfuric acid (H2SO4). Unless there was some kind of chemical reaction you guys didn't mention.
That is not the issue here. If it were something like a missing step in the reaction pathway, it would be ok, but in this case the details are important because this is one of the main process in which acid rain is formed and it's a subject in SAT related exams. What I mean is inaccuracy in college level information for the sake of brevity is ok, but this is basic stuff.
There is of course both sulfurous and sulfuric acid that results from dumping SO2 into the air. SO2 becomes SO3 though oxidization, which may happen though any number of means. One of the more common is reaction with ozone in the atmosphere (ozone is not JUST in the "ozone layer", but found in various altitudes, and increases also with added pollution). The air also contains NOx (NO and NO2 mostly) which is also an oxidizer (and part of pollution). Stories now say acid rain is becoming worse, mostly due to NOx, not SO2 at the moment.
Completing the cycle to sulfur*ic* acid, SO3 combines with water to form H2SO4, which is sulfuric acid. NO2 combines with water to form HNO3 or nitric acid.
I don't think I'd call the college level information inaccurate, because sulfuric acid IS formed, however, it clearly glosses over the details which require some goggling to find out. I found this helpful: sites.google.com/site/acidrain1project/#SULFURIC
The acids were eating into everything and causing a great deal of damage to buildings etc.
I'd forgotten about the smog of '52 but, I do recall The Great Stink of '58. (And I don't mean that I remember it as if I was there; it took place in 1858.) I would be very interested in a follow up video to this fine presentation, that compares the two related events. The Stink of 1858 lasted through July and August of that year and simply would've had to have had a deleterious effect on the health of the residents of London.
a stink so bad that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had to get out ten minutes after starting a pleasure cruise, and the half-built Parliament's windows had to be scented up with lime because the river was just next door.
or, as one paper put it, "Gentility of speech is at an end-it stinks..."
@@rin_etoware_2989 Thanks for the info! And a truth-in-advertising prize for some reporter.
If you watcht The Crown Season 2, It gets highlighted. its takes up the whole episode
Oh, so basically just like modern day Beijing. :P
Bazagi Derp yea been there and thats complete bullshite m8
Or moder day New Delhi.
@@boterham7144 Haha yeah, that's like trusting Russia when they say the won't take Crimea :D
@@ReMx3DIT Or trusting Brits when they say that Britain colonizing India was a good thing for Indians.
sounds like beijing today.
Beijing is in a country with more than twenty times the population than England.
ImperatorZor so?
Fun story. Once I studied abroad in China, and one of the places the group stayed in was Beijing. For the first few days we were there, the sky was actually mostly blue and everything seemed fairly normal. Then one day, seemingly overnight, the sky turned brown and obviously smoggy. (When we went to visit a portion of the Great Wall up in the mountains, you could actually see the dome of smog blanketing the city.) We asked one of our Chinese instructors what was going on that the smog was so bad that day. She looked at us in genuine confusion and asked, "Oh is it bad today???" We thought the brown sky was weird, but it turned out that that was normal and we had just gotten lucky to actually see blue sky for a brief time.
I've been to Beijing a few times and it's crazy how overnight the smog can get so bad. The first time I visited, it was smoggy the first few days and then overnight it got clear. This last time I visited it was just the opposite.
China is closing a coal plant per day and investing tens of billions in solar power. They are canceled shipments of coal from North Korea. It's bizarro world where the USA increases the use of coal where China is a world leader in green energy!
When I was a kid in UK in the 1950's smogs were common. People died every year. We used to call them pea soupers. My mother frequently had to wash clothes several times, also the washing line would be coated in soot. You knew it was a bad one when you couldn't see your own outstretched hand (that isn't a joke). You could really taste the smoke in the air. At that time every house had one or more coal fires and Britain was still a major manufacturing centre, and of course every factory had it's chimney.
I didn't know about this before watching this video. Great information. Thanks!
I can remember really thick fog in the UK even in the 1960`s. We were sent home from work as the buses would be taken off. As a child I remember the fog/smog being a yellow/grey colour when you looked up at the street lights.And it smelt awful.
Hey, mate, have you wondered about creating a video about another important event that took place in London in the 19th century? I'm talking about "The Great Stink of London of 1853". That's such an interesting part of Environmental History.
Thanks for the video, you smashed it.
Well, as one famous barber once said: 'There's no place like London'...
There really isn’t
We tend to forget just how bad pollution was in the mid-20th Century. Amidst all the talks of whether or not environmental issues are really all that serious, we have actual historical records of times like this, when the air was so bad that it posed an immediate and readily-observable threat to people's lives. I'm sure part of the problem is that we just never hear about this. I certainly didn't learn about deadly air pollution in school.
Wait...trains collided? They relied on seeing each other to avoid collision?
Probably an issue of seeing the signals rather than another train.
I was there; I was 5. I remember that all you could see was vague blobby streetlights in a greenish-yellow soup. Fuzzy shadows of people would appear out of nowhere for a moment, then disappear. It was actually quite exciting for a 5-year-old.
Big business will never care about murdering innocent poor people. They've gotta make stupid amounts of profit. Fts
This kind of environmental problem is one of many massive problems if you don’t regulate corporations
Hank that is a nice shirt (unsarcastic comment here just really like the shirt)
Gamerkam it really is
I actually thought of a kimono when I first saw it
It is cool! I might seen it in some other video too.
It happened in the United States as well; in 1948, Donora, Pennsylvania, south east of Pittsburgh. For 5 days or so, around Halloween, a temperature inversion trapped industrial smoke, automobile exhaust and other pollutants in the air. It hung over the river valley and the town like a blanket. It was like night around the clock. Visibility was practically zero. It became quite serious. There was loss of life, especially the sick, the elderly and the very young. The steel mills kept on belching smoke in spite of the growing health crisis. It was said that the furnaces were too costly to shut down and then later restart once the inversion lifted. They finally relented, I believe, in the end and shut down when people started dying!! Look it up. It's a interesting story. Hank, you should produce a video on this, it would fit right in. Just a thought...
China was just like, "we will ignore it"......... 3 000 deaths a day later and they havent changed tactics.
GreekPanda Lol, China is doing it's best to prevent that, while US is trying to get to that point.
Average Snowflake *cough cough Paris agreement withdrawal cough cough*
Sorry, all this smog gives me allergies.
I mean, they are trying these days, but they have cities with enormous populations. It gets difficult. Still, they are currently making a better effort to reduce pollution than the U.S. is.
GreekPanda that is because individual lives are worth next to nothing, it is public outrage what organisations are afraid about, when a large enough among of people can no longer say it's not their problem.
The weird thing about China, is that when it (ie. the government) wants to do something, they get it done FAST. Physically, they could improve the pollution problem. But they won't. Because the benefit isn't worth it to them. To China, the nation comes before the people.
Edit: Secondary benefit to human lives is public perception. ie. "Look how environmentally friendly we are. Ignore our past. We are now the leaders in green technology. Yay."
I remember when in lived in NYC during the 1960s, that by the day after it snowed the white snow would be covered with black stuff. As the days went by a black crust formed on the snow. Another thing was that all year long the windows were covered on the outside with dark gray sand, no matter how often you tried to clean them it came back before you knew it. Coal was used to heat apartment buildings back then. They would put a chute through a basement window and coal from the coal truck was loaded down the basement. When they burned it, the smoke would sometimes start out yellow, but then it always turned to black smoke that filled the sky.
Hello Simon, I like the smog in London
;)
waht is wrong with you?
Didn't ask
lol deron stfu
I was born during that time, & my mother often told me about how when she was taken to hospital in labour, someone had to walk in front of the ambulance with a flaming torch so that they could see where they were going.
how did that affect your health? I'm a med student preparing a presentation on this, can you maybe explain a bit about how it was and what consequences it had? It'd be amazing to get information from someone who's experienced it
@@ValentiaTheLunatic I don't think it affected my health because in those days mothers were kept in hospital for at least a week to 10 days after giving birth. By the time we got out of the hospital the smog had cleared up.
@@catherinebirch2399 but didn't similar incidents happen later? Or was it just that one time? I'm reading articles and a lot of them mention respiratory problems of the children born in that time which are related to the smog
I thought it said frog. I was confused yet amazed.
My mum told stories of the smogs; apparently you could get lost crossing the road. You'd get to the center of the road and you wouldn't be able to see either of the kerbs.
Do you maybe have more stories of that time? I'm a med student preparing a presentation on this
I thought the title was "The Frog That Killed 12,000 People"
It wasn't just that they were burning coal. It was the type of coal. Post-war, solid, cleaner coal was used for industry, while homeowners were sold a cheaper coal that was basically dirt with coal in it, which produced a lot more airborne filth when burned.
I honestly thought this said the frog that killed 12,000 people
its pepe
Same here O.o
It did initially 4,000 then 8,000 in the last 2 days combined they equal 12,000
Dakota Whisenant same
Same
You forgot another important U.S. event. www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donora_Smog_of_1948 The Donora Smog was one of the incidents where Americans recognized that exposure to large amounts of pollution can result in fatalities. The event is often credited for helping to trigger the clean-air movement in the United States, whose crowning achievement was the Clean Air Act of 1970,
Coal producers: "It was the flu! THE FLU!"
This is yet another great video presentation from Patreon or however one spells it!
that is a badass shirt
Feels great to get the honor of giving you guys the 13.000th upvote
oh... I misread fog as frog
now I'm disappointed
MaryElizabeth Nicholes same
MaryElizabeth Nicholes DA FROG THAT KILLED 12,000 PEPERS
#TheGreatFrog
The Beatles’ I Am The Walrus song reference about getting a tan while standing in the English rain is in reference to the smog problem.
"We're moving back to coal. Coal is the future. Believe me." -Trump 2017
Hahhhaaqqhhahhhhh 😂😂😂 I never heard this one...I have heard many others, but this is FANTASTIC!!! And perfectly placed under this video!!!
That episode of The Crown was insane~
When I was a little kid the Iron Curtain fell and National Geographic did some stories about pollution in the Eastern Bloc. There was one in the former Soviet Union by a German photographer named Gerd Ludwig. As a little kid those pictures and stories terrified me and made me eternally grateful to live a country with a strong environmental movement. The Soviets completely destroyed their environment in order to catch up with the West, which they never came close to achieving.
Thanks for uploading.
I'm surprised nobody here is talking about China.
That shirt is fire!!
i thought it said frog and I got confused when u talked about smog.
Love the shirt!
Correction, SO2 dont forma sulfuric acid when reacts with water, it forms sulfurus acid, H2SO3. SO3 on the other had, forms H2SO4 when mixed with water. When coal is burnind, the sulfur that is present forms both SO2 and SO3, forming both diferent acids when they are mixed with water.
The title of this video describes High School bathrooms quite well.
I got caught ______ in my _______ and I _____
socially akward Masturbatung, bed, and loved it?
defiling cheese
local grocery store
now _love_ sharp Stilton
Destroying Sumerian artifacts
Adventure hat and black clothing
Am part of ISIS now.
imaginary girlfriend
best friends pants
Masturbated to it
looking stupid
Comment
Am going to delete it
we live in the valley of Pa. You can tell the air is heavy when you can smell wood 4 miles away from river lots
i remember them talking about this in The Crown on netflix
Ooh this was in an episode of "The Crown"!
I read the title of this video as "The Frog that killed 12,000 people".
You really explain very well
This is what happens when we don't have a functioning EPA...this is what the Republicans want to bring back.
To be fair, we do not have a functional EPA now.
+Jonathan Williams -- either way, its proof industry will not willingly regulate itself.
Thats not true, EPA been going down hill for years stop playing the blame game
The republicans are the ones gutting the environmental laws to allow more pollution.
How will this happen again who burns coal?
I love your shirt.
Too bad our President doesn't believe this kind of information.
Darcy Kahler what do you mean by that?
He's referencing trump's disbelief in climate change. Because it totally relates to the video.
Banana McStuffins 2 it kind of does. Lol
Banana McStuffins 2 A more apt reference would be his repeal of the Clean Water Protections. That is literally allowing coal companies to dump their pollution into water streams.
this has nothing to do with trump so stop trying to making a excuse to bring trump to some other countrys problems.
Your killin me scishow.
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Bruh pls be serious many people died here
OHHHHHH SAPNAPPPP
WE LOVE YOU HANK
still not as deadly as my fart
I feel bad for your significant other.....and toilet. Poor poor toilet.
fun fact: also because of the smog all the buildings where really dark at the time. to prevent the buckingham palace from darkening the outside walls where refurbished with a special marble (if i remember correctly) that the smog wouldn´t be able to stick to as easily..
NOTIFICATION SQUAD HERE
Yesss
My new favorite video to make my friends curious
Is walking backwards down a hill really better for you?
Very informative... enjoyed watching.
and his name was Pepe
Jackal Unleashed Fog not Frog...
i think it originally said frog lol i swear
I must admit it... it really was me...
I've got boxes of Pepe!
pepe the fog
How did this not get millions of views
Who else is here late because of John's stream? Like if you are!
And here we have a great example of an astonishingly ignorant creature. So ignorant in fact, that it cannot grasp the differences between a planned and timed event, and an archived video which is static in time.
What do you mean? I was just asking who wasn't here as early as they usually are because I refused to leave John's stream. And, I would also prefer if you did not call me ignorant, even for a joke.
TheCowprint Saaaaaammmmee!
1952 not that long ago? That was before I was born and I'm 61!
Republicans would gladly let this happen for an extra buck
ElChapo Junior I don't see why republican? This isn't political at all!
ElChapo Junior maybe 2 bucks
ElChapo Junior Democrats would rather focus on the weather while letting Islamic Terrorists suckle on their tit while simultaneously taking their citizens freedom of speech.
Mandrake Fernflower Establishment democrats might not be perfect, but it's the republicans that vote to let coal companies pollute water
Why did you have to bring politics into this?
its a pretty hard image to imagine:but then again,my mind's always smoggy.
I know your not wearing socks
(Yeah I'm watching you from your window)
of course, i am not wearing socks. its 48 C here. i aint wearing anything at all.
hows my view from the window?
Tell Me This I ammmmmm blinded
Aaron Varghese I irrationally looked at my window after I saw your comment.
I am not joking i am in the bathroom where there are no windows and i am wearing ONLY sock so you can stfu
Aaron Varghese I am
The soot is the reason why the bricks of some London townhouses are grey or black, originally they would have been a yellowy colour owing to the colour of London clay.
"flights were grounded" -1852
Are you talking about airships/balloons or something?
1952, not 1852.
Why does it say 1852 on the screen?
Obr Kenobi because it says 1952... maybe you should get that smog problem checked out... it's messing with your vision
Obr Kenobi It was probably a typo
good grief. i have been watching these little science bits since this morning and it is now 4 in the afternoon. goodbye day.
I guess someone had too much Taco Bell
When I lived in Hawaii, when the volcanoes erupt sometimes the wind blows the gasses and smoke particles over to Honolulu. Atmospheric moisture mixes in and we get days of what we call VOG.
Charles Lightoller, most senior of the Titanic's officers to survive the ship'ssinking, died of heart failure during the London smog.
Love the shirt, Hank!
Your shirt is amazing!
Nice shirt, Hank!
I've been waiting for someone to talk about the great smog since Alltime 10's video about the world's worst man-made disasters. Thanks Hank!! :)
Already knew of this because of the Netflix show "The Crown". This is how I fool myself into believing that when I spend days and nights binge watching I'm studying and not just throwing my time into the garbage bin.