Podcasts about great smog

 A deadly fog. A city caught off guard. Over 12,000 lives lost—and barely a whisper.In December 1952, London was smothered by a yellow fog so thick it stopped traffic, filled hospitals, and choked the breath from thousands. No alarms. No evacuation. Just cold air, coal smoke, and silence.This episode of An Ounce follows fictional lives inside a real catastrophe: the Great Smog of London. Discover how a slow-moving, invisible predator crept into homes, settled into lungs, and changed public health policy forever.

Dezember 1952: Es ist kalt in London. Die Menschen sitzen in ihren Wohnungen und heizen. Damals noch mit Kohle. Was sie nicht ahnen: Eine Umweltkatastrophe lauert wortwörtlich vor der Tür. Der „Great Smog“ wird durch die Gassen der Metropole ziehen, das öffentliche Leben lahmlegen und tausende Menschenleben kosten. -- In dieser Folge von „BRITPOD – England at its best“ berichten unsere Entdecker Alexander-Klaus Stecher und Claus Beling von einer der größten Katastrophen in der Geschichte Londons: „The Great Smog“: Ein Nebel, der für eine dramatische und chaotische Zeit in der kompletten Stadt gesorgt hat, denn es war kein gewöhnlicher Nebel. Er war hochgradig giftig. Grund dafür: Luftverschmutzung. Und die war schon seit Jahrhunderten ein Problem in London. Wie konnte es trotz dieses Wissens zu der Umweltkatastrophe kommen? Warum erkannte die Regierung die Tragweite der Katastrophe erst viel zu spät? Und welche Konsequenzen hatte der große Nebel von London für die Zukunft der Umweltpolitik? -- WhatsApp: Du kannst Alexander und Claus direkt auf ihre Handys Nachrichten schicken! Welche Ecke Englands sollten die beiden mal besuchen? Zu welchen Themen wünschst Du Dir mehr Folgen? Warst Du schon mal in Great Britain und magst ein paar Fotos mit Claus und Alexander teilen? Probiere es gleich aus: +49 8152 989770 - einfach diese Nummer einspeichern und schon kannst Du BRITPOD per WhatsApp erreichen. -- Ein ALL EARS ON YOU Original Podcast.

Raimund Löw im Gespräch mit Xifan Yang, Anna Lisa Ahlers, Jörg Wuttke und Susanne Weigelin-SchwiedrzikWIE CHINA MIT DEM WELTCHAOS UNTER DONALD TRUMP UMGEHTDie Volksrepublik China sieht sich in ihrem Aufstieg zur Weltmacht permanent behindert durch Gegenaktionen der Supermacht USA. Europa tanzt aus chinesischer Sicht viel zu stark nach der amerikanischen Pfeife. Mit Präsident Trump erhöht sich zusätzlich die Instabilität.Wie die Führung in Peking auf die neue Situation in der internationalen Politik reagiert wird für die nächsten Jahren entscheidend sein. Eine hochrangige Expertenrunde erörtert die Lage aus chinesischer Sicht: Journalistin und Buchautorin Yang Xifan, Sinologinnen Anna Lisa Ahlers und Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik  unter der Diskussionsleitung von Raimund Löw.Die Allmacht des chinesischen Präsidenten Xi Jinping scheint in dieser entscheidenden Phase im eigenen Land nahezu grenzenlos zu sein. Aber der fulminante Boom für Chinas Wirtschaft ist zu Ende.   An die Stelle der Globalisierung der letzten Jahrzehnte könnten weltweit Zölle treten. Eine Abschottung der großen Wirtschaftsräume würde China als Exportweltmeister ganz besonders treffen.Wie stark ist der chinesische Staatskapitalismus unter der Führung der Kommunistischen Partei? Wie erleben die Menschen die verschärfte Repression unter Xi Jinping?  Was kann Europa von einer betont selbstbewussten Führung in Peking im Clinch mit den USA erwarten? Raimund Löw, Journalist und Gestalter des Podcast Falter Radio. Er war Korrespondent des ORF in Peking, Brüssel und Washington DC. Buch (gemeinsam mit Kerstin Witt-Löw) „Weltmacht China. Mit einem Vorwort von Hugo Portisch“ (2018)Xifan Yang, deutsche Journalistin und Buchautorin. In ihrem Buch  „Als die Karpfen fliegen lernten“ (2015)beschreibt sie die Geschichte ihrer aus der chinesischen Provinz Hunan stammenden Familie. Yang Xifan hat als Korrespondentin der Wochenzeitung Zeit in Peking gearbeitetAnna Lisa Ahlers, deutsche Sinologin. Sie forscht und lehrt am Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte sowie an der Universität Oslo. Bücher: The Great Smog of China: A Short Event History of Air Pollution (mit Mette Halskov Hansen und Rune Svarverud); Democratic and Authoritarian Political Systems in 21st Century World Society (mit Damien Krichewsky, Evelyn Moser und Rudolf Stichweh) Jörg Wuttke, ist Partner bei Dentons Global Advisors in Washington DC. Er war bis Juli 2024 27 Jahre lang BASF Repräsentant in Beijing. Er war Präsident der EU-Handelskammer in China von 2007 bis 2010; 2014 bis 2017 und 2019 bis 2023. Wuttke war Chairman der Deutschen Handelskammer von 2001 bis 2004. Er ist Mitglied des Beratergremiums des Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) in Berlin seit der Gründung 2013. Er lebte mehr als drei Jahrzehnte in Peking. Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Universitätsprofessorin i.R. für Sinologie an der Universität Wien und Programmdirektorin China beim Austrian Center for Strategic Analysis, Wien

Back in December 1952, London experienced a fog like no other—it was thick, yellowish, and downright deadly. This wasn't just regular fog; it was smog, a toxic mix of fog and smoke from coal burning. For five days, the city was practically blinded, and people could barely see a few feet ahead. Breathing it in was even worse—it caused severe respiratory issues, and sadly, it's estimated that over 4,000 people died during the event, with thousands more falling sick. It was a wake-up call for environmental action, leading to laws like the Clean Air Act to prevent such disasters. The “Great Smog” showed how dangerous pollution could be and why we need to keep our air clean. Credit: CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... The main drainage: By Wellcome Images - https://wellcomecollection.org/search..., https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Animation is created by Bright Side. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music from TheSoul Sound: https://thesoul-sound.com/ Check our Bright Side podcast on Spotify and leave a positive review! https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD... Subscribe to Bright Side: https://goo.gl/rQTJZz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook:   / brightside   Instagram:   / brightside.official   TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.of... Telegram: https://t.me/bright_side_official Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This video is made for entertainment purposes. We do not make any warranties about the completeness, safety and reliability. Any action you take upon the information in this video is strictly at your own risk, and we will not be liable for any damages or losses. It is the viewer's responsibility to use judgement, care and precaution if you plan to replicate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode of Reminding You Why You Love Football, Owen Blackhurst is joined by Seb White and, by popular demand, the moonlighting ex-pat James Bird, in a remotely recorded episode to talk about feeling hard, Tribe West, your people, Powerpodz, MOTD, Jogo Bonito v Mighty Machine, Christiana, taking the shilling, saying what you see, Birdo on the Spot, missing your mates, Judy Dench's a Toffee, eating a takeaway in an away pub, Goodison, memories, nipple cripples, waiting for your balls to drop, fish finger sarnies, shopping in Milan, 7-Yerlevens, big birthdays, Valentine's Day conceptions, COVID, the Great Smog of '52, French Lick, Michael Jordan, Paul Ince at Inter and the Paul Ince room, un'anatra all'acqua (eventually), Ince & Hodgson: Football Detectives, causing mischief, bicycle kicks, a real fizzer, Family 1–0 Ronaldo, Pagliuca's comeuppance, a bromance, losing the dressing room, big time Charlie, Paul and Denis at the Mol, Glenn and Eileen in Tettenhall, General Stones in the trenches, I'll be back, a wonderful 0–0, another Gazza gaffe, Inter me-nan, taking things too seriously, living the dream, get the keepnet, The Sopranos, Meadow in goal and actors playing keepers, defending the volatile Janice, negative football parents, side quests and Asad's dearth, lovely football schmutter, Sopranos XI, a Grobbelaar doppelganger, Aprile at right-back, a crazy-looking winger, terrifying eyebrows and threats, pairing two from three, dressing Hesh, just annoying, Kneecap, Darwin Núñez, footballers writing about football, Héctor's insights, the cashless society, airports being crap, toilet seats, a hole in the ground, duty-free extravagance, a sea of cars, and somehow so much more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Bethan goes rogue! We had back in time, to 1952, and to London, as we take a look at a catastrophe that killed thousands of people in England's capital city. If you would like to support us on Patreon, you can find us here: www.patreon.com/seeingredpodcast If you would like to buy us a coffee, hit the link below: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/seeingredtw Get your merch here: www.seeingredpodcast.co.uk Theme music arranged and composed by Holly-Jane Shears - check her work out at www.soundcloud.com/DeadDogInBlackBag Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week Bethan goes rogue! We had back in time, to 1952, and to London, as we take a look at a catastrophe that killed thousands of people in England's capital city. If you would like to support us on Patreon, you can find us here: www.patreon.com/seeingredpodcast If you would like to buy us a coffee, hit the link below: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/seeingredtw Get your merch here: www.seeingredpodcast.co.uk Theme music arranged and composed by Holly-Jane Shears - check her work out at www.soundcloud.com/DeadDogInBlackBag Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In December 1952, London was engulfed by the "Great Smog," a devastating event caused by industrial pollution and coal burning, leading to severe health crises and thousands of premature deaths. The smog prompted a major reevaluation of environmental policies, culminating in the Clean Air Act of 1956, which aimed to reduce air pollution. This historical event serves as a crucial reminder of the impacts of industrialization on public health and the environment.

In ancient Korea, ingenious underfloor heating is invented. A king in dire financial straits institutes a controversial tax on fireplaces. Young boys are sent up treacherous chimneys in Victorian England. And the Great Smog envelops London, with deadly consequences… A Noiser production, written by Roger Morris. For ad-free listening, exclusive content and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the Noiser+ banner to get started with a 7-day free trial. Or, if you're on Spotify or Android, go to noiser.com/subscriptions To get an exclusive NordVPN deal, head to https://nordvpn.com/curioushistory to get an extra 4 months on the 2-year plan. There's no risk with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Remember when they were coming to take your gas stove away? Every so often a study about the effects of air pollution on health goes viral, and we're reminded again that seemingly innocuous objects—like your kitchen cooker—could be bad for us in unexpected ways. How bad is air pollution? And is it getting any better?In this episode of The Studies Show, Tom and Stuart look into the science of air pollution, trying to separate correlation from causality, and working out what scientists mean when they say that deaths are “attributable” to something (it's more complicated than you think!).The Studies Show is brought to you by Works in Progress magazine. We usually mention their long-form pieces at worksinprogress.co, but they also have a Substack newsletter at worksinprogress.news with shorter articles on the same topics. We commend it to you, and thank Works in Progress for sponsoring the podcast.Show notes* Recent news about “Ella's Law” in the UK* Tom's 2019 Unherd article on air pollution* “Death risk from London's toxic air sees ‘utterly horrifying' rise for second year running”* The Our World In Data “Deaths by Risk Factor” graph* 2024 BMJ Open article about the health risks of coal power stations* Dynomight's long article on air quality* The 1952 “Great Smog of London”* More useful Our World In Data articles:* An explainer on “attributable fractions” and summing up multiple risk factors* On indoor air pollution* Deaths from outdoor pollution* Death rate from outdoor pollution* Deaths from outdoor pollution vs. GDP per capita* The WHO calls indoor air pollution “the world's single largest environmental health risk”* More on attributable fractions, with some examples* Example of an experimental study on the effects of air pollution* The article that sparked the Great Cooker Controversy of 2023* Example of the media coverage at the time* Biden forced to rule out a ban on gas cookers* Recent story on how there's “no safe level” of PM2.5* Based on this 2024 paper in the BMJ* How policy interventions can reduce (and have reduced) air pollution* London report on the effect of ULEZCreditsThe Studies Show is produced by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada Productions. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thestudiesshowpod.com/subscribe

Season 04 : British Isles Episode 05 : The Great Smog : UK Environmentalism is a major hot topic all over the world today, and with good reason. After all, if the planet we live on is damaged by pollutants to the point it starts rebelling against us, it's not as if we have anywhere else to go. But while increased extreme weather phenomena and rising global temperatures are a problem we all have to deal with today, many people have come together and are making an effort to make our future brighter. Sometimes though, the darkness takes over.Check us out on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/c/SomewhereSinisterFollow us on social media:https://twitter.com/SomewhereSinhttps://www.instagram.com/somewheresinister/You can support us by donating a few bucks here:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/somewheresin

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Being able to breathe clean air should be a human right but, according to the World Health Organization 99% of the world's population lives in areas exceeding safe pollution limits, which has huge impacts on public health. Air pollution, climate impacts, and social justice are three sides of the same issue, demanding an intersectional response that not only makes space for the voices of the most impacted, but also the most disenfranchised.  Image Credit: Photo by Sai De Silva on UnsplashFeatured in this episode: The Great Smog of London, 1952, BBC Archive, Originally broadcast 5 December, 1962Featured guests:Agnes Agyepong is the founder and CEO of Global Black Maternal Health (GBMH), an organisation placing research and agency back into the hands of Black communities as change agents in their own health narratives. Key areas of research at GBMH include the impact of air pollution on Black women and their children. GBMH also supports the “Black Child Clean Air” initiative and the “Clean Air Wins” campaign.Dolly Oladini is C40's Senior Manager for Air Quality, bringing together global cities within the C40 Air Quality Network to share best practices and solutions for improving international air quality. Dolly previously worked as a senior policy officer for the mayor of London, where she promoted the T-Charge and Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) policies.LinksThe Cost of Fossil Gas: Policy Recommendations for a Clean Energy Transition and a Swift Gas Phase-out in CitiesA Pathway to Prioritizing and Delivering Healthy and Sustainable CitiesC40 Clean Air AcceleratorC40 Knowledge Hub - Air Quality ResourcesBreathe Cities unveils new cohort of cities to join ambitious initiative to fight toxic air pollutionIf you want to learn more about the Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy, please visit our website: https://jccpe.utpjournals.press/Cities 1.5 is a podcast by University of Toronto Press and is produced in association with the Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy. Our executive producers are Dali Carmichael and Peggy Whitfield.Produced by Jess Schmidt: https://jessdoespodcasting.com/Music is by Lorna Gilfedder: https://origamipodcastservices.com/

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is a former registered nurse with over 20 years of experience in nursing practice and education.  He's also been a published author for over 3 decades and has managed the production and publication of numerous healthcare textbooks.  He's now written an incredible book published in 2023 entitled "Donora Death Fog:  Clean Air and the Tragedy of a Pennsylvania Mill Town", which discusses one of the most fascinating events in weather history from the historic Donora smog event of 1948.  Andy McPhee, it's an honor to have you with us. Bruce Jones of Midland Weather Radio also is back to discuss the importance of NOAA Weather Radio and its timely warnings and information.  Also you can now get 25% off a NOAA Weather Radio at MidlandUSA.com by using PROMO CODE SPANN25. Our email officer Jen is continuing to handle the incoming messages from our listeners. Reach us here: email@weatherbrains.com. Value of historical societies in meteorological research(08:15) Factors of improvement of air pollution emissions (15:30) Industrial vs residential emissions (19:00) Geography and history of Donora (31:00) Significance of "Cement City" (48:00) Start of Oct 26th event/Donnie Dingbat  (57:30) Origin of Donora town name and its originality (01:36:30) NOAA Weather Radio Modernization Act of 2023 (01:47:45) The Astronomy Outlook with Tony Rice (01:37:22) This Week in Tornado History With Jen (01:38:45) National Weather Round-Up (01: E-Mail Segment (01:41:22) and more! Web Sites from Episode 944:   "Donora Death Fog" by Andy McPhee Picks of the Week: Bruce Jones - Rancho Palos Verdes seeks emergency declaration as ground erodes4 James Aydelott - Convective Chronicles on X: Chico, CA radar favorable wind profile for tornadoes Jen Narramore - Brandon Hulse on X: Weather reports Rick Smith - Out Neil Jacobs - SeCAPS 2024 Troy Kimmel - Capital Weather Gang post on jet stream in Mid-Atlantic Kim Klockow-McClain - Everything to Know About the Great Smog of 1952, as Seen on The Crown Kim Klockow-McClain - Last Ones Left in a Toxic Kansas Town Bill Murray - No Name Low storymap of Nov. 15-16, 2023/NWS Key West James Spann - NWS Baltimore-Washington on X: Weather balloon launch data on upper level wind The WeatherBrains crew includes your host, James Spann, plus other notable geeks like Troy Kimmel, Bill Murray, Rick Smith, James Aydelott, Jen Narramore, Dr. Neil Jacobs, and Dr. Kim Klockow-McClain. They bring together a wealth of weather knowledge and experience for another fascinating podcast about weather.

December 5th, 1952: The Great Smog blankets the city of London for five days, killing thousands in the deadliest air pollution event in UK history.Support the show! Join Into History for ad-free listening and more.History Daily is a co-production of Airship and Noiser.Go to HistoryDaily.com for more history, daily.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Here are some historical events that occurred on December 5:1776: The Phi Beta Kappa Society, one of the oldest academic honor societies in the United States, was founded at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.1831: Former U.S. President John Quincy Adams took his seat in the House of Representatives, becoming the only former president to serve in the U.S. House.1933: The 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, repealing the Prohibition of alcohol.1952: The Great Smog of London began, a severe air pollution event that lasted until December 9 and caused significant health problems and deaths.1978: The American space probe Pioneer 12 (also known as Pioneer Venus) sent back its first images of Venus.2001: The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) admitted that it had underestimated the amount of asbestos in the air following the September 11 attacks in New York City.2013: Nelson Mandela, the former President of South Africa and anti-apartheid revolutionary, passed away at the age of 95.These are just a few historical events that happened on December 5. As with any date, there are numerous other events that occurred on this day throughout history.Podcast Website:https://atozenglishpodcast.com/a-to-z-this-day-in-world-history-december-5th/Social Media:WeChat account ID: atozenglishpodcastFacebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/671098974684413/Tik Tok:@atozenglish1Instagram:@atozenglish22Twitter:@atozenglish22A to Z Facebook Page:https://www.facebook.com/theatozenglishpodcastCheck out our You Tube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCds7JR-5dbarBfas4Ve4h8ADonate to the show: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/9472af5c-8580-45e1-b0dd-ff211db08a90/donationsRobin and Jack started a new You Tube channel called English Word Master. You can check it out here:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2aXaXaMY4P2VhVaEre5w7ABecome a member of Podchaser and leave a positive review!https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-a-to-z-english-podcast-4779670Join our Whatsapp group: https://forms.gle/zKCS8y1t9jwv2KTn7Intro/Outro Music: Daybird by Broke for Freehttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free/Directionless_EP/Broke_For_Free_-_Directionless_EP_-_03_Day_Bird/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcodehttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Joplin/Piano_Rolls_from_archiveorg/ScottJoplin-RagtimeDance1906/https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-a-to-z-english-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

It's officially October! And today we have a special guest - Ally's brother Ryan! AKA Ryanator Fortyone! While Julia is taking care of some adult life things, Ryan is going to try out some of the warm and yummy drinks we've explored on the podcast, plus take a quiz to see what kind of Halloween creature he (and Ally) are!    You can find Ryan here: https://www.youtube.com/@ryanator41   Quiz: https://www.buzzfeed.com/livgorlewski/halloween-animal-quiz Sources for previous episodes:  Pumpkin Spice Latte:  https://www.sweetsteep.com/pumpkin-spice-sauce-recipe/ https://www.bustle.com/life/the-history-of-the-pumpkin-spice-latte-how-it-came-to-embody-all-things-fall-10222074 https://stories.starbucks.com/stories/2014/starbucks-first-pumpkin-spice-latte/ Apple Cider:  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-origins-apple-cider-180960662/ https://www.seriouseats.com/chris-lehault-5118607 https://www.britannica.com/story/was-johnny-appleseed-a-real-person http://www.nationalapplemuseum.com/appleciderandmore.html https://www.triviagenius.com/brief-history-of-american-apple-cider/X1uyim15UQAH9iQi https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/59048/11-ways-hard-cider-shaped-american-history Chai:  https://www.thespruceeats.com/the-history-of-masala-chai-tea-765836 https://www.teatulia.com/tea-varieties/what-is-chai.htm  http://www.holycowchaitent.com/chai-history.php https://www.masterclass.com/articles/what-is-garam-masala-homemade-garam-masala-spice-blend-recipe-and-how-to-cook-with-garam-masala  https://www.thebetterindia.com/78265/chai-tea-history-india/ https://www.webmd.com/diet/health-benefits-chai-tea#1 https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/chai-tea https://www.starbucks.com/menu/product/2122273/hot https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/demerara-sugar https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/turbinado-sugar https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/jaggery#TOC_TITLE_HDR_1 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/the-splainer-what-makes-the-cow-sacred-to-hindus/2015/11/05/acdde3e2-840c-11e5-8bd2-680fff868306_story.html  https://www.healthline.com/health/food-nutrition/healthy-okra-recipes#Bhindi-Dopiyaza- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3459456/  https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/ayurveda#:~:text=Ayurveda%2C%20a%20natural%20system%20of,translates%20to%20knowledge%20of%20life.  https://www.thespruceeats.com/what-is-ctc-tea-765674  https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Ewart-Gladstone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjeevani_(plant)  https://www.thespicehouse.com/blogs/news/what-is-mace https://www.pepper-spray-store.com/pages/mace-vs-pepperspray#:~:text=%E2%80%9CMace%E2%80%9D%20is%20also%20a%20common,gas%20of%20OC%20pepper%20spray.&text=Tear%20gas%20operates%20differently%20from%20pepper%20spray. Chamomile:  https://www.teatulia.com/tea-varieties/what-is-chamomile.htm https://www.wiseapetea.com/blogs/knowledge/the-history-of-chamomile-tea https://www.aliceengland.com/friendly.asp?page=blog/a-brief-history-of-chamomile-for-wellbeing/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3210003/#!po=0.471698 https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2995283/ https://purecosmetica.com/history-and-folklore-of-chamomile  London Fog:  https://pin.it/2gx3mGg  1https://www.growteacompany.com/blogs/news/the-history-of-london-fog-the-earl-grey-tea-latte-with-a-controversial-past 2https://spoonuniversity.com/lifestyle/what-is-a-london-fog-and-what-does-it-taste-like 3https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/food-and-drink/the-london-fog-was-invented-in-vancouver-and-we-spoke-to-the-woman-who-invented-it-3529023  4https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Smog-of-London  5https://www.britannica.com/science/anticyclone Hot Chocolate:  https://www.thespruceeats.com/the-history-of-hot-chocolate-764463 https://spoonuniversity.com/recipe/7-hot-chocolate-variations-around-the-world https://whatscookingamerica.net/beverage/hotchocolate.htm http://www.kikucorner.com/2015/09/30/colombian-hot-chocolate-with-cheese/ https://aseasyasapplepie.com/italian-hot-chocolate/ https://www.davidlebovitz.com/belgian-hot-chocolate/ https://www.davidlebovitz.com/parisian-hot-ch-1/ https://www.mexicoinmykitchen.com/champurrado-mexican-thick-chocolate/#wprm-recipe-container-3213 https://www.isabeleats.com/mexican-hot-chocolate/ https://www.littlesugarsnaps.com/chai-spiced-white-hot-chocolate/#Chai_Spiced_Hot_Chocolate https://www.britannica.com/topic/Las-Posadas

The Dust Bowl in the 1930s caused by extensive soil erosion in the southern plains region of the United States, led to  severe dust storms during a period of extensive drought. For five days in December 1952, the Great Smog of London smothered the city, wreaking havoc and killing thousands. In the early 1950s, the Minamata Bay was the center of the outbreak of the Minamata Disease caused by Mercury poisoning caused by toxic waste from the nearby Chisso Chemical Plant. In December 1984, the world's worst industrial disaster happened in the City of Bhopal in India after the poisonous gas Methyl Isocyanate leaked from the local Union Carbide plant.

In this episode, we're taking on a future you may not be able to choose and move to a climate safe location. Maybe it's a job you can't leave, or you can't afford to move, or there aren't many climate safe locations to pick from. How can you then keep your home, your neighbourhood safe from climate impacts? This is Part-2 of a 3-Part Climate mini-series. In this, experts take us through how an Indian city is learning to deal with climate extremes and poor city planning; and how current and future homes and neighbourhoods can be reimagined for future climate. Experts we spoke to for this episode (in order of appearance): Gopikrishna Warrier, managing editor at Mongabay India. Rajesh Kumar Chauhan, building contractor. Dr. Siddharth Singh, author of The Great Smog of India, which is a book on India's air pollution crisis, and a researcher of energy transitions and climate action. Dr. Harini Nagendra, an ecologist who leads Azim Premji University's Center for Climate Change and Sustainability. People who helped make this episode: Imagined Tomorrow is created and hosted by Shreya Dasgupta. Theme music, sound design and editing by Abhijit Shylanath. Draft edits by Abhishek Madan. Thanks to Parvathy Nair, Parni Ray and Nihira Ram for their help. Get in touch via Twitter or email imagined.tomorrow@gmail.com. Transcript | References | Sound Credits: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vR7vj2zUx9kSrGf1iAHXBgDKdHN0PakBajQslx3wI9Oib7PKewZAGSOLN623BpYSVYNZ5r9ZngpD3zE/pub

We're back with another Way Off Track episode, and this time Brittany tells Thurlow the wild story of the Great Smog of London (and some warning signs that came before). Sources: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/great-smog-of-london-1952-coal-air-pollution-environmental-disasterhttps://www.history.com/news/the-killer-fog-that-blanketed-london-60-years-agohttps://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Smog-of-London#ref1273797https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pea_soup_foghttps://www.britannica.com/science/pea-soup-foghttps://www.epa.gov/archive/epa/aboutepa/londons-historic-pea-soupers.htmlMusic by Alena Smirnova: https://open.spotify.com/track/2qFfB2WYgJNvsTVLoo3ngF?si=305f46c547734686

How do you pick a home in a location that's safe from the unpredictable effects of climate change? Can scientists tell us what climate impacts each neighbourhood in an Indian city will see? In this episode, experts take us through what it would take to make hyper-local climate forecasts for city neighbourhoods, so you can choose a climate safe location to live in. We also see what we already know about future impacts and what we can do in the absence of forecast data. This is Part-1 of a Three-Part Climate mini-series. Experts we spoke to for this episode (in order of appearance): Sandhya Ramesh, Science Editor at The Print. Dr. Roxy Mathew Koll, a Climate Scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology Dr. Indu Murthy, head of the Climate Environment and Sustainability sector at the Centre for Study of Science, Technology and Policy, a research-based policy think tank in Bangalore. Dr. Siddharth Singh, author of The Great Smog of India, which is a book on India's air pollution crisis, and a researcher of energy transitions and climate action. People who helped make this episode: Imagined Tomorrow is created and hosted by Shreya Dasgupta. Theme music, sound design and editing by Abhijit Shylanath. Draft edits by Abhishek Madan. Abhishek and Abhijit voiced the characters in the fictional phone call. Thanks to Parvathy Nair, Parni Ray and Nihira Ram for their help. Get in touch via Twitter or email imagined.tomorrow@gmail.com. Transcript | References | Sound Credits: https://docs.google.com/document/u/2/d/e/2PACX-1vSbqIyYwSLpSVYKY1w0ru4PH4mjke-NsrCL4KV06neek9jkFds-xBi5vy14lEGqn7ATlsFw4_9VbrRJ/pub Disclaimer: The names, characters, and incidents portrayed in the fictional story of S2E8 of Imagined Tomorrow are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred.

This week we’re delving deep into our collective anxieties, discussing a fog that killed a GRIP of people in London, and the many things about living in our bodies on planet Earth that are actually casually terrifying. Highlights: [0:00] CoRri tells Mark about London’s Great Smog of 1952[28:00] Shooting of the shit occurs[42:03] It’s time to shout out our Ko-fi subscribers! You can get a shout out too by doing the right thing at http://www.ko-fi.com/jackofallgraves[61:00]What we watched! (Poker Face, The Whale, Claw, National Treasure, Cat’s Eye, Evil Dead 2, Time After Time, Baskin)[80:20] Mark brings up the many ways in which life is just casually terrifying Stuff we referenced: Fear of political embarrassment led to government cover up of link between air Great Smog of London The Great Smog of 1952 Met Office: The Great Smog of 1952 The Great Smog of London woke the world to the dangers of coal Reflecting On The 1952 Great Smog of London and Its Legacy Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City Solar ‘superstorm’ missed Earth in 2012 — but another could strike

Y'all. Between the sh*t stains and the pee soupers, we're really not sure how the human race has survived for thousands of years. MAJOR TRIGGER WARNING FOR THIS EPISODE. It's heavy stuff but we do our best to roast those that deserve it! Join us!

This week, Cate and Liz begin a new series on Famous Disasters! They start with the Great Smog of London in 1952. When a rare weather pattern forced fog to mix with coal soot from London's buildings and vehicles it created a deadly smog that latest for five days and claimed thousands of lives. The impact of the disaster wasn't known immediately and eventually led to changes in legislation. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.

On the 5th of December 1952 London experienced a major pollution episode, the Great Smog, resulting in thousands of deaths throughout the city.On the 70th anniversary of this event, the lecturer will review how air pollution has changed in the intervening period, the evidence that it is still having profound effects on our health and the effectiveness of measures to ensure clean air and better public health.A lecture by Ian MudwayThe transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/londons-airGresham College has offered free public lectures for over 400 years, thanks to the generosity of our supporters. There are currently over 2,500 lectures free to access. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn from some of the greatest minds. To support Gresham's mission, please consider making a donation: https://gresham.ac.uk/support/Website:  https://gresham.ac.ukTwitter:  https://twitter.com/greshamcollegeFacebook: https://facebook.com/greshamcollegeInstagram: https://instagram.com/greshamcollege

The Great Smog of London descended on the British capital due to a combination of air pollution and weather ...

What's up Wikimaniacs! On today's episode we have a couple that are financially screwed, OP's husband finds her repulsive, a boyfriend has a work wife, and an ex-husband forgets to take OP off as his beneficiary! After that we go to This Day In History where John teaches us about the Great Smog of London! Let us know your thoughts! Sponsor: Go to MANSCAPED and use code 'Reddit' for 20% off + free shipping worldwide! Support Ya Boys: Become a Patreon for ad-free episodes and bonus AITA stories every week as well as exclusive content: Cultiv8 Patreon Sean's Venmo Our Links: Instagram TikTok Discord Subreddit Store Website Submission Timestamps: (00:00) - Intro (11:40) - Financially Screwed (27:05) - Husband Finds Me Repulsive (38:52) - Boyfriend Has A Work Wife (55:27) - Ex's Beneficiary (01:00:03) - Today In History (01:04:20) - Patreon Shoutouts (01:07:19) - Outro Copyright 2022 Cultiv8 Podcast Network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pea Soup – Erbsensuppe – so bezeichnen die Engländer ihren berühmten Londoner Nebel. Im Dezember 1952 wird diese Brühe aber nicht nur ungenießbar, sondern auch zur Todesfalle.

Pea Soup – Erbsensuppe – so bezeichnen die Engländer ihren berühmten Londoner Nebel. Im Dezember 1952 wird diese Brühe aber nicht nur ungenießbar, sondern auch zur Todesfalle. Auch in Deutschland kommt es später zu Smog-Alarmen, es gibt Verbesserungen. Das Problem der Luftverschmutzung jedoch ist geblieben, die Belastung immer noch viel zu hoch - doch sie ist nicht sichtbar, anders als damals die große Smogkatastrophe von London. Autor: Ralf Gödde Von Ralf Gödde.

Heute vor 70 Jahren begann "The Great Smog of London" die Smog-Katastrophe in der britischen Hauptstadt.

The Nibelungenlied https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fmpd Great Smog of London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London Killer smog https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001fmtb 300 Years Ago, There Was a Brutal Murder. We Could Learn From the Treaty That Followed. https://nyti.ms/3Vlm8Fv It took a village to build Europe's Gothic cathedrals https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/gothic-cathedrals-architecture-medieval-europe Great Peacemaker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Peacemaker meu canal no Koo https://www.kooapp.com/profile/renedepaula meu mastodon: rené de paula jr (@renedepaula@c.im) https://c.im/@renedepaula meu ... Read more

Welcome to the Velocity Chaos Podcast! This is the 84th Episode of the Velocity Chaos Podcast!!  Luke, Nick, and DJ Four Chords talk about Firkin, Smog, and Touching Butts. They get into a Party Knowledge Segment about Fog, go through some Clickbait Headlines, and Find out What you Think Firkin Means! All that and More on this episode of the Velocity Chaos Podcast! Thank you all so much!   Be sure to Like, Comment, Subscribe, and or leave a rating on all the platforms! Share it with your friends! Instagram Facebook YouTube www.VelocityChaos.Libsyn.com  Spotify Apple Podcast iheartRadio Episode Links Segment 1 Party Knowledge - Fog https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/fog  https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Smog-of-London  https://www.britannica.com/science/atmospheric-turbulence  Segment 2 Clickbait Headlines https://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/this-little-stoat-loves-this-trampline/87251142/  https://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/phone-booth-fighting-the-next-extreme-sport/87271213/   https://www.ebaumsworld.com/articles/food-delivery-robot-shows-total-disregard-for-active-crime-scene/87270979/  https://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/the-weakest-punch-in-the-history-of-mankind/87268526/  https://www.ebaumsworld.com/articles/jeremy-fragrance-is-the-internets-best-smelling-man/87267916/  Segment 3 What Do You Think it Means? - Firkin http://quantumtheology.blogspot.com/2020/08/firkins-butts-and-barrels.html  Aussie News Axel Echidna https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-06/echidna-trashes-bendemeer-pub-hotel-room/101409246  Recommendation Men's Warehouse https://www.menswearhouse.com/  Songs are free YouTube songs:  Jason Farnham - World Map E's Jammy Jams - Soul and Mind Didgeridoo Royalty Free Music Infraction - Upbeat Funk Rock [No Copyright Music] _ Saturday  Send us an email about anything If you have any questions or topics you would like us to get into, please email VelocityChaosPodcast@gmail.com  We'll see if we can tackle your question in an upcoming episode! Timecodes are slightly off, because they are taken from the YouTube Video Timeline. 0:00 Intro 0:24 Welcome and Show Set up 2:07 Make the Connection - Drumsticks to Ziplining 4:38 Segment 1 - Party Knowledge - Fog 19:12 Ad Break 1 - Book 20:14 Segment 2 - Clickbait Headlines 42:50 Ad Break 2 - Grandmas 44:18 Segment 3 - What Do You Think it Means? - Firkin 56:15 Australian News - Axel Echidna 59:31 Summation 1:01:18 Recommendation - Men's Warehouse 1:04:19 Outro

Author of The Great Smog of India, Siddharth Singh talks about why he expects no reduction in air pollution this year and what needs to be done to improve the air thousands of Indians breathe every winter.

Author of The Great Smog of India, Siddharth Singh talks about why he expects no reduction in air pollution this year and what needs to be done to improve the air thousands of Indians breathe every winter.

The Angel of Death seeped through cracks into the homes of unknowing London residents. It didn't take long for the dying to begin and for time itself to stop. What was this reaper of mass destruction? Tune in for the rest of the story!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London

Olivia Laing is a 17 year old actress. She is naturally talented with a passion for her craft. She talks about her journey with enthusiasm and determination, from her first school production of a Shakespeare play to her part in a Channel 5 dramatised documentary. Check out Channel 5 for "The Great Smog" at 9pm on 7th and 8th September 2022. With thanks to Kevin Ralph for the introduction to Olivia! Olivia's profile is here: www.cultureinkent.org/profiles/olivia-laing Host: Nathalie Banaigs | Recorded in Faversham. Pic Nathalie Banaigs

In Part II of our series “London Stinks” we look into the history of air pollution in this world city, which began more than 500 years ago, and culminated in the deadliest smog in recorded memory, killing as many as 12,000 people in 1952. https://medium.com/@johnhaze/the-great-smog-6324fccf0fb9 (Medium: The Great Smog) https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/londons-past-air (Breathing in London's history: from the Great Stink to the Great Smog) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Ww0ONdhg4&ab_channel=MuseumofLondon (YouTube: London's Great Smog of 1952, The London Museum) https://batterseapowerstation.co.uk/about (Battersea Power Station | Our Story) https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/feb/19/monets-obsession-with-london-fog-weatherwatch (Monet's obsession with London fog | Claude Monet | The Guardian) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2543875.stm (BBC NEWS | UK | England | Pollution call on smog anniversary) https://www.npr.org/2002/12/11/873954/the-killer-fog-of-52 (The Killer Fog of '52 : NPR) https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/england/london/articles/london-fog-the-biography/ (The Reason London is Renowned for Being Foggy - TheCultureTrip) https://archive.org/details/fumifugium00eveluoft/page/n21/mode/2up (Fumifugium, John Evelyn, 1661) Follow us on IG: @themorbidmuseum Email us at themorbidmuseum@gmail.com Artwork: Brittany Schall Music: "Danse Macabre" by Camille Saint-Saens, performed by Kevin MacLeod "A Foggy Day" by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong 2022 All Rights Reserved.

Congratulations to Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II on her Platinum Jubilee! The Channel 5 documentary “Are You Being Served? Secrets and Scandals” - we can't wait to see it. Which do you love more: the original AYBS or AYBS-Again/Grace & Favour? Our poll shows an even split! Joanne Heywood, who played Miss. Lovelock, is unanimous in her choice of “Are You Being Served Again” / “Grace & Favour”. Professor Jeff defines “skeuomorph” thanks to a Unanimous Superman's tip. A live #1 hit with George Michael and Elton John. What would happen if an AI listened to every AYBS episode and wrote a new script? @KeatonPatti on twitter did this with Hallmark Christmas movies and we read a hilarious example. Mr. Brandon uncontrollably giggles again. Our “Moment of Butch”. What exactly -is- Mrs. Slocombe's foundation? And she wants to know exactly where that pub is… Jukeboxes. Air quality in the UK and the disaster in the 1952 called “The Great Smog”. A walking billboard for Reebok running gear. Mr. Humphries finds that 4 inches is more than acceptable. What does “ship shape and Bristol fashion” mean? A surprising slavery connection to a West England port city. Fun with non-sequiturs. “He really gets on my wick” = Cockney rhyming slang. Why can Mr. Humphries handle the Goblin vacuum? The political stunt from Boris Johnson to revert the UK away from the metric system to the old fashioned Imperial measurement system. Pulling a date/pulling a customer. The Benny Hill-like scene with Captain Peacock and the lawn mower. Mr. Humphries and Mavis cry together over cutting onions. A random Paul Lynde impression! Check out graceandfavour.net! Teseling the dirty sheets! Wendy Richard almost breaks character and laughs at the kitchen table. Lots of call backs to the original AYBS series in this episode! Cleg-Hampton, played by Maggie Holland, is past it. Mr. Volpone, played by Gorgon Peters, was in the original AYBS episode, who is amazing at playing an off-balanced British Rail waiter. The 3 new roles in AYBSA/Grace & Favour really added a lot to the new series- a tribute to Joanne Heywood, Fleur Bennett, and Billy Burden! Are there any clips of John Inman around from his PBS promotional tour in from the 1990s? Treat yourself to some That Does Suit Madame merch at our Bargain Basement podcast shop at imfree.threadless.com for t-shirts, mugs, tote bags, and more! Leave the show a voicemail at the Peacock Hotline: (662)-PEACOCK (662-732-2625) and find us on Twitter @DoesSuitMadame and #AYBS #AreYouBeingServed #ImFree #Britcom #comedy #MrHumphries #ThatDoesSuitMadame #GraceBros #podcast #LGBT #BlackLivesMatter #BBC #AreYouBeingServedAgain #GraceAndFavour #GraceAndFavor

On December 5, 1952, the city of London was engulfed in a lethal black haze that killed thousands of people. This event, now known as the Great Smog, altered how London and much of the world viewed air pollution, and led to environmental policies that have no doubt saved many lives since then. Links to the Tiny Show & Tell stories: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/04/science/octopus-model-mbl.html https://www.uvm.edu/news/gund/nature-helps-mental-health-research-says-only-rich-white-people 

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In 1952 London was gripped by a acrid smog that settled throughout the city so thickly residents couldn't see their own feet on the sidewalk. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Jonathan Freedland explores historical parallels of today's shift to renewable energy due to climate change. Jonathan considers moments in history when societies have been forced to adapt their energy supply due to environmental pressures. He looks to the Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom and how it adapted to a century long drought, Early Modern England's wood scarcity crisis and the shift away from coal prompted by London's Great Smog of 1952. In our era of environmental crisis, can these historical events offer guidance on how best to adapt our own energy resources? Contributors: Professor Nadine Moeller, Yale University. Keith Pluymers, Assistant Professor, Illinois State University Dr Roger Fouquet, London School of Economics Producer: Sam Peach

Weersfenomenen en klimaat in de bergen - een perfect onderwerp voor midden in de winter. In deze aflevering van Klimaat van Vandaag beschrijven onderzoekers Mark Dekker en René van Westen wat hoogteverschil doet met druk en temperatuur wat voor interessante fenomenen dat met zich meebrengt. Voorbeelden uit verschillende continenten komen langs en als samenvatting van de afgelopen vier afleveringen zoomen ze in op het klimaat van Gangtok (India).CO2 meter (23 januari t/m 29 januari 2022):Dit jaar: 419.13 ppm (+0.74 %)Vorig jaar: 416.04 ppmRelevante links:Poolexpeditie naar Thwaites GlacierEffect van Thonga op de gemiddelde temperatuur.Mogelijke economische voordelen van geoengineering met behulp van injectie van zwaveldioxide in de atmosfeer.Wat cijfers over de Köppen classificatie (zie tabel 4)The Great Smog in Londen veroorzaakte zo'n 10,000 doden.Reageren? Mail naar klimaatvanvandaag@gmail.com. Je kunt ons ook vinden op Instagram en Twitter.

Photo:   Piccadilly Circus during the Great Smog of London, 1952 #LondonCalling:  London in the Fog of Omicron. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/omicron-cases-in-uk-double-every-three-days-997fjx7p9

Chai there! This week we are learning about the London fog drink and how it actually has to do with fog! And London! And a pregnant woman??? Join us as we cover a wide topic both in and out of the UK and discover a secret provider for Starbucks! We also find out which Bridgerton character we are!!!    Send us your questions or just say hey:  webrewgood@gmail.com @webrewgood on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok   Links and Citations: London Fog Recipe -  https://www.pinterest.com/pin/33354853474057039/  The Crazy Mason - https://www.thecrazymason.com/desserts/ghouls-just-wanna-have-fun/ Lavender Syrup - https://pin.it/2gx3mGg  Bridgerton Quiz - https://www.buzzfeed.com/ziegem13/which-female-bridgerton-character-are-you-based-6yfpbberog  Research Information - 1https://www.growteacompany.com/blogs/news/the-history-of-london-fog-the-earl-grey-tea-latte-with-a-controversial-past 2https://spoonuniversity.com/lifestyle/what-is-a-london-fog-and-what-does-it-taste-like 3https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/food-and-drink/the-london-fog-was-invented-in-vancouver-and-we-spoke-to-the-woman-who-invented-it-3529023  4https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Smog-of-London  5https://www.britannica.com/science/anticyclone

#GreatSmogOfLondon कोयले की वजह से लंदन पर छाया था ‘द ग्रेट स्मॉग', 5 दिन में मारे गए थे 12 हजार से ज्यादा लोग https://youtu.be/HXtg_d6r-vI

This story was a featured in the hit television series The Crown.  The Great Smog is the central event of season 1, episode 4 on the popular Netflix program. Fans of the sci-fi cult classic  Doctor Who, will remember when "The Great Smog" was the setting of the audio play "The Creeping Death".  And the The Boris Starling novel Visibility is also set in this 1952 smog event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Great Smog of London, or Great Smog of 1952, was a severe air pollution event that affected the British capital in early December 1952. A period of unusually cold weather, combined with a large region of high pressure and windless conditions, collected airborne pollutants—mostly arising from the use of coal—to form a thick layer of smog over the city. It lasted from December 3 to December 9, 1952, then dispersed quickly when the weather changed. It caused major disruption by reducing visibility and even penetrating indoor areas, far more severely than previous smog events, called “pea-soupers”. Government medical reports in the following weeks estimated that up to December 8, 4,000 people had died as a direct result of the smog and 100,000 more were made ill by the smog's effects on the human respiratory tract. More recent research suggests that the total number of fatalities may have been considerably greater, one paper suggesting about 6,000 more died in the following months as a result of the event. London has suffered since the 13th century from poor air quality and this worsened in the 1600s as the city grew and coal become the common method to heat homes. The Great Smog is thought to be the worst air pollution event in the history of the United Kingdom, and the most significant for its effects on environmental research, government regulation, and public awareness of the relationship between air quality and health. It led to several changes in practices and regulations, including the Clean Air Act of 1956. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Una crisis medioambiental en Londres en los años 50 dejó un miles de muertos en apenas cuatro días. Para nombrarla se inventó en inglés una nueva palabra: smog, una mezcla de smoke (humo) y fog (niebla). Y la de 1952 pasó a la historia como Great Smog o lo que es lo mismo, la Gran Niebla.Música de EpidemicSound y Aser RodríguezProducción de Audire Podcast.

Smog had become a frequent part of London life, but nothing quite compared to the smoke-laden fog that shrouded the capital from Friday 5 December to Tuesday 9 December 1952. The Met Office says though that “While it heavily affected the population of London, causing a huge death toll and inconveniencing millions of people, the people it affected were also partly to blame for the smog.” The crazy thing is the effects of this smog were not realized until 3 weeks after the event. It was a bizarre and hard time in London's history, so settle in and join us as we discuss the story that changed air quality regulation forever. Follow the link for show notes and references https://docs.google.com/document/d/1df_IWEezl7ySqUtU0_SO-6c4ZBHBRXcwXmfbUPs_1tw/edit?usp=sharing  Captions of transcript available on our Youtube Page

In today's episode Sarah tells the story of a sick woman who got others sick in the ER, Nick shares the story of the Great Smog of 1952, Sarah tells a story of a secret movie alleged to be cursed and the sad story of an ice cream parlor disaster.

In this episode, we speak with Siddharth Singh, author of the “Great Smog of India” and co-lead author of India Energy Outlook 2021 for the International Energy Agency. We have a wide-ranging conversation that dives into this Comprehensive report and touch on topics including renewable energy growth and electricity demand projections, as well as some of the key factors will have a drastic impact these projections. Hope you enjoy this conversation! Topics Include: 1. How much time is spent collecting data vs. analyzing vs. writing vs. connecting with people when compiling the India Energy Outlook 2021 2. A high-level overview of how the energy sector is structured and the different sub-sets within 3. In the IEA India Energy Outlook 2021, one of the concluding headlines was titled “all roads to successful global clean energy transitions go via India.” Mr. Singh provides some background, for those who haven't read the report, on why this is 4. Main obstacles that would prevent India from becoming a global leader in the clean energy space 5. Why electricity demand is set to increase much more rapidly than India's overall energy demand 5. Mr. Singh's overarching thoughts on India's development moving forward

This week, Tyler & Megan learn about The Great Smog of London, a period in 1952 of extreme air pollution due to the perfect storm of factors. While learning this week, the two will be sampling Monkey Shoulder's Original Blended Malt Scotch.   As always, thank you so much for your support! Don't drink and drive!   Places you can find us: whiskeyandwonder.com Instagram: @whiskeypodcast or @whiskey.tyler or @whiskey.megan YouTube: Whiskey & Wonder Twitter: @whiskyandwonder or @tyler_whiskey Email: contact@whiskeyandwonder.com tyler@whiskeyandwonder.com megan@whiskeyandwonder.com  Facebook: facebook.com/whiskeyandwonder Paypal: paypal.me/whiskeyandwonder Patreon: patreon.com/whiskeyandwonder   If you have a drinking problem, reach out to the folks at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).

Cody and Greg discuss two tragedies from London's history: The Great Smog of 1952 and the London Beer Flood. The Great Smog disrupted life in London for five days, killing thousands. The London Beer Flood destroyed an entire Irish neighbourhood and ended the lives of 8 women and children. Support our show by sharing it with your friends and family! Learn more at https://www.unfortunatehistory.com. Join our FB group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/unfortunatehistory PeriTune (peritune.com) | Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

How seriously should take the Chinese government's discourse about ‘ecological civilization'? Mette Hansen argues that whatever the shortcomings of this rather grandiose notion, it offers an invaluable means of engaging China in important global debates about the future of the planet – and should not simply be glibly dismissed as an exercise in green-washing. She finds particular hope in pop-up local environmental initiatives that deploy the official discourse creatively to advance a green agenda. Mette Halskov Hansen is professor of China studies at the University of Oslo Her latest book is the The Great Smog of China (Association for Asian Studies, 2020, co-authored with Anna L. Ahlers and Rune Svarverud). This podcast is one of a series recorded with the keynote speakers from the Fourteenth Annual Nordic NIAS Council Conference ‘China's Rise/Asia's Responses' held on 10–11 June 2021, in collaboration with the Nordic Association for China Studies and the University of Helsinki. The Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration sharing expertise on Asia across the Nordic region, brought to you by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) based at the University of Copenhagen, along with our academic partners: the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku, Asianettverket at the University of Oslo, and the Stockholm Centre for Global Asia at Stockholm University. We aim to produce timely, topical and well-edited discussions of new research and developments about Asia. Transcripts of the Nordic Asia Podcasts: http://www.nias.ku.dk/nordic-asia-podcast About NIAS: www.nias.ku.dk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How seriously should take the Chinese government's discourse about ‘ecological civilization'? Mette Hansen argues that whatever the shortcomings of this rather grandiose notion, it offers an invaluable means of engaging China in important global debates about the future of the planet – and should not simply be glibly dismissed as an exercise in green-washing. She finds particular hope in pop-up local environmental initiatives that deploy the official discourse creatively to advance a green agenda. Mette Halskov Hansen is professor of China studies at the University of Oslo Her latest book is the The Great Smog of China (Association for Asian Studies, 2020, co-authored with Anna L. Ahlers and Rune Svarverud). This podcast is one of a series recorded with the keynote speakers from the Fourteenth Annual Nordic NIAS Council Conference ‘China's Rise/Asia's Responses' held on 10–11 June 2021, in collaboration with the Nordic Association for China Studies and the University of Helsinki. The Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration sharing expertise on Asia across the Nordic region, brought to you by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) based at the University of Copenhagen, along with our academic partners: the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku, Asianettverket at the University of Oslo, and the Stockholm Centre for Global Asia at Stockholm University. We aim to produce timely, topical and well-edited discussions of new research and developments about Asia. Transcripts of the Nordic Asia Podcasts: http://www.nias.ku.dk/nordic-asia-podcast About NIAS: www.nias.ku.dk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/world-affairs

How seriously should take the Chinese government's discourse about ‘ecological civilization'? Mette Hansen argues that whatever the shortcomings of this rather grandiose notion, it offers an invaluable means of engaging China in important global debates about the future of the planet – and should not simply be glibly dismissed as an exercise in green-washing. She finds particular hope in pop-up local environmental initiatives that deploy the official discourse creatively to advance a green agenda. Mette Halskov Hansen is professor of China studies at the University of Oslo Her latest book is the The Great Smog of China (Association for Asian Studies, 2020, co-authored with Anna L. Ahlers and Rune Svarverud). This podcast is one of a series recorded with the keynote speakers from the Fourteenth Annual Nordic NIAS Council Conference ‘China's Rise/Asia's Responses' held on 10–11 June 2021, in collaboration with the Nordic Association for China Studies and the University of Helsinki. The Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration sharing expertise on Asia across the Nordic region, brought to you by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) based at the University of Copenhagen, along with our academic partners: the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku, Asianettverket at the University of Oslo, and the Stockholm Centre for Global Asia at Stockholm University. We aim to produce timely, topical and well-edited discussions of new research and developments about Asia. Transcripts of the Nordic Asia Podcasts: http://www.nias.ku.dk/nordic-asia-podcast About NIAS: www.nias.ku.dk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/east-asian-studies

How seriously should take the Chinese government's discourse about ‘ecological civilization'? Mette Hansen argues that whatever the shortcomings of this rather grandiose notion, it offers an invaluable means of engaging China in important global debates about the future of the planet – and should not simply be glibly dismissed as an exercise in green-washing. She finds particular hope in pop-up local environmental initiatives that deploy the official discourse creatively to advance a green agenda. Mette Halskov Hansen is professor of China studies at the University of Oslo Her latest book is the The Great Smog of China (Association for Asian Studies, 2020, co-authored with Anna L. Ahlers and Rune Svarverud). This podcast is one of a series recorded with the keynote speakers from the Fourteenth Annual Nordic NIAS Council Conference ‘China's Rise/Asia's Responses' held on 10–11 June 2021, in collaboration with the Nordic Association for China Studies and the University of Helsinki. The Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration sharing expertise on Asia across the Nordic region, brought to you by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) based at the University of Copenhagen, along with our academic partners: the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku, Asianettverket at the University of Oslo, and the Stockholm Centre for Global Asia at Stockholm University. We aim to produce timely, topical and well-edited discussions of new research and developments about Asia. Transcripts of the Nordic Asia Podcasts: http://www.nias.ku.dk/nordic-asia-podcast About NIAS: www.nias.ku.dk Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/chinese-studies

This week, Johnny tells the guys about the Great Smog of 1952 in London. Considered one of the worst air pollution events in history, it lasted five days covering the city in a thick yellowish-green smog. When all was said and done, over 100,000 people got sick and between up to 12,000 people died as a result. Find us on the web and social media: BICBP-RADIO.com Instagram Johnny Townsend    johnnyism28 Chris Chavez            ccchavez13 Twitter Johnny Townsend    @johnnyism Chris Chavez            @cchavezforreal

Ah Emily. Another week, another opportunity to get stuck in with the grime, the dark, and the deaths. This week we are off to...erm...well, everywhere in London actually! It's the Great Smog of 1952, which hung over London and caused all manner of chaos and suffering. So as you can imagine, Emily is LOVING IT. Join us to find out more about this frankly grim few days of 20thC London.   Plus we find out who won the Podcast Pedestal and Emily gets her sweaty hands on the wheel again for another chance to see where we will get to chat about next week. Let us know what you think on Instagram, or on our websites. Instagram @ladieswholondonpodcast Email ladieswholondon@gmail.com Websites www.guideemily.com and www.alexlacey.com/links where you can also book for our virtual and real life walking tours. Thanks to Susie Riddell for our voiceover jingles www.susieriddell.com and our jinglemeister Ben Morales Frost, can be found on www.benfrostmusic.com See you next week

Wassup Weenies! This is our first ever online live show where we talk about Frankenjeans complicated beard separation surgery, Crowboys chaotic Zoom meeting, Dave turning into an old English gentleman and having a car crash, poundland dildos and putting snacks up your butt. We have Count Factula to bring you facts about how Count Factula Sleeps, The Horrific Drowning Machine, The Great Smog of London and Cough Cough Colin and communicating with God using the Temple OS. We play a game called Kinky or Drinky where we guess if it is a Sex Act or a Delicious Cocktail Shit News brings us the latest headlines about a confused Rockhopper Penguin, the perfect Dinosaur Bumhole, 6ft Terror Worms and Dream Lottery Ticket Win! But what would we do with a Lottery Win? We also use the Blank-O-Mattic with audience participation to work out our first day at school.

As with almost every cultural touchstone, Dr. Sydnee and Justin are extremely late to The Crown party. But the Netflix historical drama has provided not only immovable hairdos and withering glares, it also serves as the inspiration of our latest episode, in which a freak weather pattern (and an overuse of fossil fuels) nearly suffocated a city.

In this Episode, Felix and Matt discuss the deadly London Smog of 1952. This episode was recorded live at www.twitch.tv/letsruinit!

“Note the twirl”. We would love a jacksy full of vaccine! The podcast is happy to leave 2020 in the dust and we hope there are less storming of Capitols in the coming year. Mr. Humprhies in a wig and high heels: what’s not to love? An American pilot of the Mollie Sugden program “Come Back Mrs. Noah” with Charlotte Rae. “What is a Cleveland?” The deadly “Great Smog of London” in 1952, maybe like the fog in Grace Brothers? (And yes, San Francisco’s fog is named #Karl). Hoover vs. Goblin and the posh Dyson. A timely Star Wars reference with Mr. Harmon’s vacuum cleaner. Mr. Humphries swam to work through the canal. (John Inman lived in London’s “Little Venice”). Buoy vs. boy. What -is- an ASDIC exactly? Young Mr. Grace fires a secretary because she didn’t have a hot ass. #Mysogony isn’t cute or very funny. The actress, Bernice Adams, also played Cynthia Randal in the “Old Order Changes” episode (she was looking for a pair of tan pantyhose please, Betty). The Bliss “pong” shop. Another polari word for “an overpowering smell”. SAT prep: truculent vs. impertinent. Mr. Tebbs was missing for most of the episode: Is Mr. Kipling to blame? The cool David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd podcast @cppodcast1 on Twitter. Mr. Humphries’ aunt who never responded to any man’s finger. The Bliss scent range: “Gay Divorce”, “Mysterious Rendezvous”, “Lady and the Tramp”. What’s so gay about Butch Cassidy? Humphries tries to improve a bra display with scarves. Mr. Lucas’ Jamaican accent; feels weird. Mr. Humphries sells a posh outfit by modeling a women’s fur coat himself (with that lovely bounce with the heels). His commission? $1000! Cottage or Shepards Pie? Mr. Brandon loves Nicholas Smith (Mr. Rumbold). Comedy has gotten a LOT faster in the 42 years since this episode of AYBS. Leave the show a voicemail at the Peacock Hotline: (662)-PEACOCK (662-732-2625) and find us on Facebook at fb.me/ThatDoesSuitMadame and on Twitter @DoesSuitMadame #AYBS #AreYouBeingServed #ImFree #Britcom #comedy #MrHumphries #ThatDoesSuitMadame #GraceBros #podcast #LGBTQ #LGBT #AYBS #BlackLivesMatter #WearAmask #BBC

This week we celebrate seasonal slaying, come to grips with a British serial strangler, & talk grief and grandparents as we review Justin G. Dyck's, Anything for Jackson. Want even more? Join the Frightday Society, at http://society.frightday.com You'll have access to all Screamium content (Behind the Screams, It's Been a Weird Week, A Conversation With..., Toast to Toast PM with Wine Kelly, Cinema Autopsy, the Writers' Room, bonus episodes of Captain Kelly's Cryptids & Conspiracies, Byron's Serial Corner, and so much more!  You'll also be part of our interactive community dedicated to the advancement of horror, hauntings, cryptids, conspiracies, aliens, and true crime. All things frightening.  Keep our mini-fridges full of blood...I mean...not blood...normal things that people drink...by going to http://shop.frightday.com Theme music by Cemeteries Produced by Byron McKoy Follow us in the shadows at the following places: @byronmckoy @samfrightday @kellyfrightday @frightday http://frightday.com http://facebook.com/groups/frightday http://instagram.com/frightday http://facebook.com/ffrightdayy   John Christie Transcript: -December, 1939 In the days approaching christmas, as a bitter cold whispered outside ,a family sat around the breakfast table. Bacon, scrambled eggs, toast. The father sat hunched over the day’s newspaper, filling out a puzzle. Mother at the stove, stirring eggs in a pan. A quiet lull in conversation was shattered with a question. Something that’s on the minds of most kids during this time of year, even today! ...Christmas presents.   “Hey, Dad. I’ll bet you’ll never guess what I got you for Christmas”. The old man, breaking his gaze, cocked his head back, towards the ceiling with a look of desperation on his face, “A new furnace”. An ironic wisecrack that was well received by the room due to his reputation for being one of the most feared furnace-fighters in Northern Indiana. With only mere minutes left before being forced to leave the table for school, the oldest son, on tenterhooks about what he would say next, could feel the Christmas noose beginning to tighten. A question that both excited and terrified him was shot in his direction. “What would you like for Christmas?” -Now...what he said in response certainly wasn’t important. The request was met with reasonable resistance, you may hurt yourself, or something like that. And although slightly more somber, breakfast continued, and the old man went out to start the family car. An Oldsmobile. But something was wrong...during the night, the vehicle had frozen up.  While filling up a large pot with warm water, the father turned, and shushed his family. Beyond the quiet sounds of a radio, he heard something. It was coming from the basement… A vent whose purpose is to provide invisible comfort and warmth, was emitting something much uglier. A cloud of black smoke creeped in, like an unwanted guest, as the sounds downstair grew louder. ”It’s a clinker!” The father grabbed his gloves, and stepped into the basement, a black cloud welcoming him, patting his back on the way down.  13 years after the fictionalized events that i’ve just described, based on the semi-autobiographical accounts of Jean Shepherd originally published in Playboy magazine in the mid-1960’s, made famous by the Bob Clark holiday classic , ”A Christmas Story, and almost 4000 miles away, on the other side of the pond, a string of unfortunate events would transpire over five days in December, 1952 -that when dissipated, would leave between 10,000 and 12,000 residents dead -100,000 more sick   -Citizens strangled by the exhaust of poor fuel meant to keep them warm -capped by a weather anomaly  -which filled the city faster than A Christmas Story kitchen.   -And surviving inside this tragedy, a soft spoken, tall, thin, pathetic man  -who had been luring women into his home under the guise of assistance -had been doing some strangling of his own..   -and it’s at this point i’d like to recognize my sources  -and tell y’all...I fucked up. -For a while now, i’ve been wanting to read Kate Winkler Dawson’s book -”Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City” -that the New York Times calls “Deeply researched and densely atmospheric -I did read that book, and it do agree.    -and although a little tedious in it’s structure, i enjoyed it quite a bit. -The author does a wonderful job painting a picture of London -just on the heels of the 2nd world war   -what it was like to be a first responder during this killer fog. -police desperately trying to keep up with transportation accidents -and crime under the cover poisonous clouds -doctors blindly shuffling door to door -overwhelmed hospitals, packing in patients   -accounts of people, stuck inside their homes -family members struggling to breathe -doctors saying “this person needs to be hospitalized” -but there are no beds left -and even so, there’s no way to transport them -HOWEVER...It’s that deeply researched part that posed a problem. -I didn’t expect to learn so much about coal...and parliament...regulation… -All very interesting content, and I will share a little bit about what I learned -but this is supposed to be a one part episode for Christmas. -Over the last two weeks, I could have booked us up for over a month.    -There was even a point where I was gonna take a detour and talk about why freakin Santa gives nautghy folks coal.  -which led me to La Befana, an italian witch  -as well as Sinterklaas’s assistant in German and Dutch folklore, Zwarte Piet (Zwar-tah, Pete) -or “Black Pete -an extremely controversial “boogyman” figure that in recent years has caused quite a stir -after neo-nazi groups have started violently defending their “right” to dawn the traditional costume of -red lips, curly black wigs, blackened faces, and a ministerial-like costume… -We’ll save that for next year   -But of course...this is Byron’s serial corner.  -and although this particular fog did kill thousands...if you think about it… -it’s really more of a spree killer…   -SO...with all that said...the focus of my report tonight will be on the life, and deaths attributed to a real pitiful piece of shit named John Reginald Halliday Christie     -and  -Kelly, I hate to give you the collywobbles right before Christmas -who am I kidding, I love it   -but as an apology, I will remind and allow you to use British phrases like, bollocks, wanker -and even the Frightday Classic, “Bob’s Your Uncle”, whenever you feel necessary  -Merry Christmas  -John Reginald Christie  -Know to most as “Reg” -came into this world on April 8th, 1899 -near Hallifax, in Northern England -to Mary Hannah & Ernest Christie -He was raised with 5 sisters and one brother, in a working-class household.    -Mary was a sweet woman, -however, her husband was not. -He was cold, strict, quiet, and although he didn’t drink -rare within my research  -he was prone to physical and verbal abuse.    -Every Sunday he would march his family 5 miles to church -and i do mean march. Shoulders back, and arms swinging    -Reg respected his father, but feared him.  -One story in Death in the Air recalls a story shared about a beating received after being accused of stealing tomatos (which he didn’t even like) -Once his mother convinced Ernest otherwise, Reg was telling the truth, he was given a shilling for his trauma.   -When Reg turned 8, his Grandfather David Halliday passed away -While seeing the body laid out in preparation for the funeral, he became captivated.  -A once powerful man has seemingly lost that appearance -Now nothing more than a body -This experience changed him forever. -he later recalled “You would expect that for a little boy this would be a terrible experience. For me it was not. I was not frightened, worried, or perturbed in the slightest. I looked at the corpse with a strange pleasant thrill”   -At age 11, he was granted a scholarship to Halifax Secondary School, -He was a bright kid that excelled in math. -A very detailed student.  -the kind of person that tinkered with clocks for fun... -It was later determined that he had an IQ of 128.    -which led me down a road, and I’m sorry for a tangent this early -the average IQ is between 90 and 110 -I had always assumed that the more prolific serial killers would have a high IQ -but in my digging...it’s really all over the board…   ON THE HIGH END -not a surprise -Ted Kaczynski  167 -Andrew Cunnan 147 -Ed Kemper 145 -Dahmer 145 -Bundy 136   HIGHISH -Gacy 118 -Kenneth Bianchi 116 -David Berkowitz 115   BUT, a majority of serial killers have an IQ in the 90s or below. -Henry Lee Lucas was a dumb dumb (89) -Robert Pickton was a dumb dumb (86) -Gary Ridgeway (which surprises me) not smart (82) -Otis Toole (no surprise here) double dumb (75)   -and the way killers kill, actually says a lot about how smart they are -on average (and keep in mind, there’s not a lot of data here, so it feels a little skewed) -but bombers have the highest IQs -followed by stranglers assisted by guns or bludgeoning instruments   -poisoners  -solo strangulation -stabbers -Shooters -strangle assisted by stabbing  -and at the bottom, with IQs in the 80s and 70s  -are all variations of bludgeoning -which makes sense, i suppose....   -Anyway, this smart little boy proved himself a skilled athlete,  -was a boy scout, even an assistant scout leader eventually.  -but was nervous, and awkward, even from an early age. -he was scared of the dark -and even as an adult, was easily spooked...frequently from bad dreams -which gives me great joy -y’all need to see a picture of this dork in the show notes of this episode at frightday.com   -After leaving school on 22 April 1913, he began a job as an assistant projectionist. -a profession for artistic cool people, or creeps -and i did forget to mention Reg loved photography  -It’s an odd venn diagram….   -Reg’s coming-of-age didn’t go great.  -His thoughts on sex and violance were already getting jumbled up -Being raised in such a strict religious home, with a majority of women around,  -he denied ever engaging in “the sin of self-pleasure”,  -but claimed he caught a brief glimpse of his sister’s stocking top, and this thrill, brought about “strange feelings”.   -However, much like many serial killers, this crossing of wires causes “issues” with physical intimacy.  -One day, 16 year old Reg and two of his blokes went to a place known as “Monkey Run”.  -a lover’s lane of sorts in Savile Park.  -The boys paired up with some girls, and went down the lane to “love”. -Still a virgin, Reg was with someone he later described as “a mill girl of loose morals” -While his friends successfully scored, he struggled... -trembling with his limp penis in his hand as the girl mocked him.   -Reg’s account was a little different “I remember that we kissed and cuddled, but i heard later she told my friends i was “slow””   -A week later, the same girl slept with his friend, and she very publicly compared the two…   -A school word spread, giving him the nickname “Can’t do it Christie” and “Reggie No-Cock” -which a later autopsy would confirm...his dick was fine. Normal size.    -”All my life since I have had this fear of appearing ridiculous as a lover” he would later admit -This is where his need to be in complete control during sex started. -It’s also at this time he became increasingly hypochondriac, prone to hysteria, -we’ll talk more about that soon.   -Still, he would spend his cree time hanging out at pubs. -even through he never drank -Only talking to women. -He was playing the part of a good moral young man, while secretly obsessing over sex and death.    -On September 19th, 1916, two years into World War 1 -originally know as World War -Reg enlisted in 52nd Nottingham & Derbyshire Signal Corp -he was a signalman.  -During his 16 months of service, he was reprimanded twice for sneaking off-base to find sex-workers. -this would become a habit for Reg, as he could usually pay enough for them to do whatever he asked.   -But he saw more than just woman. This was the time of trench warfare, and he was in the thick of it.  -Shells exploding all around him.  -bodies of his buddies rotting around him.  -On June 28th, 1918 -A mustard gas shell exploded near him, knocking him unconscious as the gas crept around him.  -somehow he survived, but he was not alright.    -The gas left him blind for five months, and unable to speak for over three years,  -leaving him with a permanent, soft, whiney voice.  -...or so HE says. -Military medical records state that he had no major symptoms of exposure (blisters on skin or in throat or lungs) -and had no injury to his eyes. -He was diagnosed with Functional aphonia (acute voice loss) -but it wasn’t from the gas...it was from fright -He was hospitalized for 32 days, and treated for laryngitis...then told to go home.   -and on October 22nd, 1919, he did.  -where he quickly got a job at Sutcliffe’s Woolen Mill so he could pay for more sex-workers.  -However, soon found real love or something like that in a woman named Ethel Simpson. -The daughter of a rug designer...I believe. -i wrote this part at 1am, and couldn’t find where i read that. -By all accounts she seemed to be a good woman, from a good family.   -The two married on May 10th, 1920, just months after meeting. -But married life didn’t come naturally to Reg.  -not much did -His visits with sex-workers continued and escolated  -he was unable to get pregnant with Ethel -and disappointing his parents with his failings, he was disowned -They separated after four years, when Christie moved to London and Ethel lived with relatives. -but reconciliation was not far out.    -I’m gonna yadda, yadda some of the next ten-ish years of his life -not to minimize his crimes, but because I would rather focus on the lives of the people he eventually took.  -As a quick summary, over the next decade, Reg would be in and out of prison for  -3 months for stealing packages while he was a mailman -9 months for theft -6 months hard labor for assaulting a prostitute -he hit her over the head with a cricket bat -blood everywhere, he shoved his fingers down her throat when she screamed for help -it was awful -There were other assaults he was suspected of, but never charged for   -he was however given 3 months for stealing a laurie -did you forget about the slang offer, kelly?  -that’s a car.   -While inside, Reg met a priest who convinced him to change his ways.  Which of course he didn’t -This is when he asked for Ethel back.  -and since she very much still loved him, she moved to London to be with him.  -They soon remarried, and in December of 1938, the couple moved into a small, ground floor flat,  -at an address soon to be infamous -10 Rillington Place in the Ladbroke Grove neighbourhood of Notting Hill -A cheaply constructed three-story brick building in a low income area -the train was so close to the building it was “deafening”    -Obviously not cut out for war. when WWII did happen,  -Reg did a good job of playing the part of a good citizen, joining the Police Force -as a volunteer war reserve officer -The power and control over people was exhilarating   -He would follow women and take notes.  -spy on neighbors -he became almost fanatical about upholding the law,  -and he eventually got the nickname, "the Himmler of Rillington Place."    -Reg was there for a while -but he resigned in 1943 after the affair he was having with co-worker was interrupted by her real soldier husband, who beat him up.    -Ya see, his bad behavior never stopped.  -right after he got out of prison the last time, he went right back to visiting sex-workers -escalating his fantasies, more and more violent and disgusting    -His hypochondria had progressed as well   -Sometime in 1938, Reg was hit by a car while riding his bike -As if he wasn’t already primed to be a serial killer, he injured his head -among other things.   -This impacted his life significantly, leaving him more concerned about his health -not leaving the house as often.  -His ailments would become more clear in the subsequent years.  -Fibromyalgia, headaches, hemorrhoids, and nervous diarrhea -As things progressed, he would claim to be unable to lay down for extended periods of time -a combination of enteritis, and extreme back pain would leave him unable to bend at the waist -do anything at all really. -or so he claimed… -and this is where I wanna say, I know many folks out there are struggling with invisible illnesses -I don’t really even want to speculate further with what Reg Christie did have -but I do wanna make fun of his diarrhea -and whether or not he was actually sick -I am glad he was in pain, because of the awful things he did later.    -Between 1937 and 1952, Reg Christie made 174 visits to a man named Dr Matthew Odess -one of my favorite stories of his ailments was when he approached Odess with a particularly bad case of enteritis… -The Doctor recommended a starvation diet of only milk, toast, and barley water. ...so lactose, gluten, and more grain? -Back home his sweet wife had prepared him a big glass of barley water -but slipped, and spilt it all over him.  -wet, in pain, and starving    -That night however...while lying in bed, the couple heard a loud thud from the flat above them. -something like a flour sack hitting the floor.  -They got our of bed, and went to the window.  -silence. then more moving -It sounded like moving heavy furniture... -at least...that’s what they would soon tell the police.    -In April of 1948, Timothy Evans and his then pregnant wife, Beryl, moved into the top-floor flat at 10 Rillington Place -6 months later, they gave birth to a daughter, Geraldine.    -Tim was a working-class guy. A van driver for a food company.  -Not terribly smart. -Due to health problems as a child, he missed much school,  -and would go on to say he couldn’t write, or read beyond comics. -He was known to embellish, and boast to boost his self-esteem.  -The marriage wasn’t a good one. Neighbors noted hearing heated arguments. -Beryl kept a messy house full of dirty diapers, and spoiled food -She wasn’t great with money either.  -but Tim was an abusive drunk who was having an affair with a 15 or 16 year old girl….so….   -Things got even worse for the Evans family, when Beryl found out she again, was pregnant.  -She immediately said she didn’t want to have the baby,  -that they couldn’t afford the added cost, and she couldn’t handle the stress. -Also, their relationship was shit   -but of course abortion wasn’t legal in London at the time.  -and anyway, Tim coming from a religious home, was staunchly against the idea.    -However, this didn’t stop Beryl from trying.  -popping mystery tablets, and attempted to douche  -Saying she’d rather die than have another baby.  On November 30th 1949 -Reg opened his front door to see three police officers struggling to pry up the drain cover underneath his front bay window.  -They asked when was the last time he saw Beryl Evans and her child…   -150 miles away, Timothy was in a jail cell in South Wales -The day before he had turned himself in, confessing to the murder of both his wife and young daughter.    -and what he admitted during interrogation does change a couple times -The first time detectives walked through his account -which they had to write down due to his inability to write -took almost two hours to tell.  -it was extremely detailed. Too detailed.  -That his 3 month pregnant wife had been injecting herself in the vagina with a strange mixture -when that didn’t work, was popping tablets.  -That she started looking ill. -When Beryl threatened to kill herself and this born child. -He didn’t believe she would follow through, so he went to work -During his deliveries, he claimed to have met a man at a diner, who gave him an abortion pill. -When he came home, he told Beryl the story.  -She found the pill while searching his pockets for a cigarette -The next day, Tim returned home from work to find her dead, on the bed.  -He fed the baby, waited up till 2AM, and slipped her body into the drain -went back upstairs and smoked a cigarette.    -Over the next few days, he “got the baby looked after”, quit his job, sold his furniture.  -He returned to his parents home, claiming that his wife and daughter were on holiday   -But this confession didn’t see right. He seemed detached.  -couldn’t follow up on details.    -and back at 10 Rillington Place, once the drain was finally pried open… -it smelled wet and rotten...but there was no bodies.    -Upon hearing the news, detectives pressed Tim again, whose story quickly changed.  -”I said that to protect a man named Christie” -”It’s not true about the man in the diner either I’ll tell you the truth now”.    -And this second statement...oooh it’s not good for Reg.   -A week before Beryl died, Red had Tim over for a chat.  -The pregnancy, and the pills came up, and Reg responded. -”If you or your wife had come to me in the first place, i could have done it for you without any risk.”   -Confused, Reg reassured Tim that he had learned a thing or two about practicing medicine in the war.  -that he had helped woman with unwanted pregnancies before.  -but that 1 in 10 women wouldn’t survive -After much discussion, the Evans had decided to take Reg up on his offer.  -The day of the procedure, Tim returned home from work, and was met by Reg at the base of the stairs. -”Go upstairs and i’ll follow behind” -On the bed, Beryl was wrapped in blankets, dead.  -Upon closer look, Tim noted: “I could see that she was dead and that she had been bleeding from the mouth and nose and that she had been bleeding from the bottom part” -Reg said that he would dispose of the body and would make arrangements for a couple from East Acton to look after Geraldine.    -The last time he saw Beryl, was Reg carrying her body down the stairs.    -a these conflicting statements would come to haunt Tim Evans -and Reg Christie    -During the investigation, the Christie’s were extremely helpful.  -Recalling the bickering, even a time that Beryl said Tim tried to strangle her. -that she wanted to leave, but was scared.    On December 2nd, 1949,  -Three days after Tim confessed, another search was conducted.  -The focus was washouse with a stuck lock, which Ethel helped open  -Inside, a woodpile walled in the corner of the sink. -Behind was a something wrapped almost like a package -A green tablecloth, wrapped around a blanket, tied tightly with a  thick cord.  -Behind the door was a much smaller package.  -Beryl and Gerildine were found.  -The cause of death for both was strangulation. -Beryl with an undetermined cord from behind -Gerildine still had a striped tie around her neck.   -When presented with this evidence, Tim’s statement changed again -He had strangled his wife because she was causing him to go into debt. “In a fit of temper i grabbed a piece of rope from a chair which i had brought home off my van and strangled her with it” -The baby was strangled because it wouldn’t stop crying.   -The details of his confession seemed to match the evidence, so when taken to trial that’s what the prosecution focused on.  -But remember, this confession was always dictated by someone other than himself -and signed without reading it. -There’s also the possibility of coercion, as he once mentioned being afraid the cops would rough him up if he didn’t say the right thing…   -but Tim had a history of violence -the stress of the pregnancy -the neighbors had heard them fighting  -Beryl had told Ethel Christie about the prior strangulation.    -10 days after the murder, Reg visited Dr Odess complaining of pain in the left lumbar muscles of his back. -saying it was caused not by stress, but by physical strain, having lifted something heavy. -The trail was set for January 11th, 1950. -Under british law, a suspect could only be tried for one murder at a time, -so senior counsel CHRISTMS HUMPHREYS figured that the strangulation of his would be a more likely conviction.   -The trial wasn’t covered much by the press. They dubbed it “fish and chippy” -A dull double-murder. -During the trial it was revealed that Beryl was indeed pregnant -16 weeks with a boy -Also more details of her condition.  -There was swelling on her right eye and mouth.  -her lip was actually touching her nose.  -She had bruising and scarring on the walls of her vagina  -most likely due to self inflicted abortion attempts.  -...it’s very likely that she was raped and this was overlooked by a medical examiner  -They neglected to take a vagina swab because they knew it was the husband.   -It came out in trail that Tim had an IQ of less than an Otis Toole -65, with a mental age of an 11-year-old.   -Tim withdrew his confession, saying that the 2nd was indeed the truth -that Reg Christie had killed his wife.  -but most everyone considered the story too wild to be true.   -The Christies were key witnesses for the prosecution, -denying everything and pointing to the dysfunctional relationship of their neighbors.  -I mean, how could the feeble Reg carry a body downstairs?   -The Defense tried to bring up Reg’s criminal past, but his redemption story was convincing.  -Although there was a handful of evidence that could have cleared Tim -a timecard, other witnesses,  it was all omitted -or never shown to the jury.    -The trial only lasted 3 days, and The jury took just forty minutes to convict him. -Reg wept at the verdict.    -On March 9th, 1950, Timothy Evans was hanged by the neck until dead. -If only police would have looked harder during that second search,  -maybe they would have found the two bodies buried in the small shared garden at 10 Rillington Place -possibly even the human femur being used to prop a portion of the fence up.    -At this point in preparing my report, it’s 4AM, and i’ve realized that even though I prefaced it all with a warning that I had maybe taken on too much for one episode -I continue to fuck myself by digging deeper into details -the opposite of what Reg did when disposing of two corpses that we’ll talk about in a minute.  -I might need to cut the fog talk even more… -which makes that extended A Christmas Story coal segway up top even less significant... -so I apologize, once again.  -Merry Christmas    (First Victim) -Ruth Fuerst  -a slender, short, dark haired, olive skinned woman with deep brown eyes shaped live ovals -had a tough life.    -She was Austrian, and in 1939, at 17 was separated from her parents -As a half-Jewish woman, she fled to while she still could. -A year later, she was forced into an internment camp on the Isle of Man -She was troubled over what happened to her parents -fearing they had died in the concentration camps -it was later discovered they had safely immigrated to New York City -She had a baby girl with a Greek waiter that was immediately given up for adoption.  -Ruth eventually found herself barely making ends meet in London. -She was bright, but shy, and bordered on depressed.  -Keeping jobs was a struggle as she had poor work ethic, was frequently absent -and would quit with short notice, -She could never seem to develop strong friendships, but appreciated male attention -She would frequent a place called David Griffin’s Refreshment Room -a place where she met a distinguished vetrean and war reserve police officer.  -in August of 1943.   -He became a frequent client of hers -and the two would have sex while he taking a break during patrol -Sometimes even at his home. -In late August, after expressing that she may want something more than just a sexual relationship with Reg, he welcomed her into his bed -later recalling “The poor girl did not dream she was walking into the room of her death”. -While they were having sex, things escilated. -He reached over and grabbed a piece of rope from the side of the bed -wrapped it around her neck, pulling tight, and killing ruth.  -Suddenly, there was a knock at the door -a boy passed Reg a note informing him that his wife, who was out of town visiting her bother -would be home soon.  -Reg pulled up the floorboard of his front room, and briefly hid the corpse underneath. -the next day, while his wife was out, he moved Ruth to the washhouse. -and that night, at around 10PM, he excused himself, telling his wife he had to use the bathroom -one that had shared between the entire building -but instead, he used this time away to dig a shallow grave in the shared garden -later commenting that the neighbors watched him digging -that they gave him nods and cheerios. The greeting not the cereal  -But Ruth wouldn’t be alone in that garden for long.   -While working at Ultra Electric Ltd, a factory in northwest London, Reg noticed her right away. -Muriel Amelia Eady -an assembly line worker who made plane parts during the war.   -He began working on his second victim almost immediately -asking her to have tea with him -When she responded with reluctance, he changed his invitation to tea at his home -with his wife. -They would become fast friends -and would frequent movies. -but Reg never stopped looking for a time to strike -In October, 1944 -as the smokey fog started sticking, he noticed Muriel’s persistent cough  “I have something that can cure that” -he said, elaborating that he had medical training from the war.  -She agreed to visit his home for treatment.    -Reg would consider this his “clever” murder. “Much cleverer than the first” -Using a mask, tubing, and a jar, he build a breathing treatment apparatus. -Punching two holes in the lid of the jar. -one for each tube. -the first led from the mask to the jar, which contained steaming water infused with Friar’s Balsam -the second tube was much longer, and connected to the gas pipe behind his stove.   -On October 7th, Muriel arrived for her appointment.  -She sat in the kitchen, and slipped on the mask -seemingly unaware of the second tube -a scarf was placed over her head to keep the steam around longer -and the gas was turned on. -Soon, she went unconscious. -Reg laid Murial on the bed,  -strangled her with her stockings -then raped her body -After a brief period on the washhouse -she joined Ruth in the garden. -Over the years, Reg lost track of where exactly the bodies were, -once he drove a shovel into the neck of a skeleton, separating Murial’s skull. -he threw it into a bombed out house nearby, where it was soon found by some kids   -His illness intensified and subsisted -usually getting worse around his acts of violence   -but in the winter of 1952, as one of the worst “pea-soupers” in London history rolled in -Reg Christie was planning on killing again.    -London has long suffered air quality issues -dating back to the 13th century -in 1257, in Nottingham, the burning of sea coal inside the castle filled it with a smoke so thick -that it forced Queen Eleanor to leave -fifteen years later, Edward the 1st banned it’s use -threatening to tortue and kill anyone who used it. -But citizens continued burning, even after someone was executed.  -They simply couldn’t afford wood to burn.   -The burning of this seacoal admits higher concentrations of sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, and nitric oxide.  -and in the 1600s, it was attributed to rickets that affected half of the populations children.   -During WWII however, London used their pollution problem to their advantage -creating a smokescreen to make targets harder to hit.   -After the war, the production of coal was one of the only profitable industries that England had to offer.  -but they didn’t keep the high quality coal for themselves.  -Instead they sold their citizens a mixture of powdered coal, peppered with nuggets called “Nutty Lack” -However inefficient: -creating less heat, and more smoke, -this is what Londoners burnt.   -During the colder months, they became accustomed to the frequent dense, stinking fogs -yellow, green clouds that became known as, again, “pea-soupers”    -But on December 4th, 1952, an huge anticyclone, that stretched from Spain to Germany -moved over a windless-london. -causing a temperature inversion -which happens to us quite often in the valley we live in.  -Cold air trapped below a lid of warm air.  -As temperatures dropped, factories continued pumping exhaust -and more and more coal was fed into furnaces across london -filling the city with a fog, dense with full of soot, sulfur, carbon dioxide, and nitric oxide   -This event would last five days, take the lives of over 10,000 -sickening 100,000 more. -and again, if you want to know exactly what this experience was like -definitely grab a copy of Death in the Air -very descriptive account from many perspectives    -Nonetheless while this was happening...Reg had an epiphany…   -He didn’t very much like his job, his home...or his wife.  -On December 6th, he quit his decent job at the British Roads Services -saying he had lined up a better job in Sheffield -and that his wife didn’t feel safe in their neighborhood anymore -at the time, there was an influx of immigrants from the west indies  -and much like in the US at the time -everyone were disgusting racists -Landlords would hang signs on their buildings declaring “no coloreds”   -Recently a man named Charles Brown -Not that one, but an immigrant from Jamaica had purchased their building -and started allowing all renters.    -Reg disliked this cultural shift very much...  -The claimed the new tenets would laugh loudly and cook food that smelled disgusting.  -That the women would spit in the halls -Charlie accused the Christies of causing the conflict.  -Even more concerning, he was planning on excavating the garden to flatten it out.  -A lawyer was hired, and this paused Charlie’s plans.   -But there was no new job. -No move to Sheffeld planned -and a few days after the Great Smog of London lifted  -Ethel Christie was strangled with a stocking while she layed in her bed.  -She remained their for 3 days,  -the stocking still around her neck -a makeshift diaper beneath her -until Reg could no longer bear sleeping next to her   -With the garden near capacity, he again pulled up the floorboards -making this a more permanent hiding place.   -Before hammering the boards down, he took of her ring -and snipped off some of her public hairs as a memento.    -Over the next several days, Reg wrote letters to relatives saying she was too sick to write them for the Holidays  -but not to worry.  -He sent several gifts from “Ethel and Reg”   -Neighbors were told that Ethel had gone to Sheffield, and that he would follow shortly, -A smell was noticed, and Reg was seen sprinkling his house and garden with disinfectants   -In January, a still jobless Reg sold all the furniture in the flat, along with a watch, and his wife’s ring. -He forged her signature and emptied their bank account.  -Reg was sleeping on a mattress on the floor. -he had three chairs, and was using one as a table. -a serious case of the post holiday season blues   -While out one day, he bumped into a woman looking for a place to rent.  -He invited her to look at his place, but was disappointed when she showed up with her husband -Etherway, they agreed to take Reg’s place, and paid him 3 months rent in advance  -He euthanised his cat and dog -borrowed a suitcase from the couple, and moved on on March 20th.    -Not even one day after moving in, Charlie Brown informed this couple that they had no right to be there -and kicked them out.  -which money aside, they were happy to go. The place stunk.    -With the flat empty, the landlord allowed an upstairs tenant, Bresford Brown, to use their kitchen.  -Bresford quickly noticed the smell, and attempted to locate its source.  -While investigating, small remodeling plans were made. -he wanted to install some brackets on the wall for his radio -Tapping the wall, he discovered it was hollow.  -the door next to it was nailed shut -Thinking this was just an old coal cellar, he peeled back the wallpaper,  -and shined a light inside.   -Shocked by what he saw, the police were called.  -Between 19 January and 6 March 1953 had killed three women. -Behind that nailed door were their bodies. -All had been tired up, strangled, and raped, repeatedly -before and after death    -The gas tube technique had been used on all of them.   -Investigators also discovered the body of his wife when they noticed the loosened floorboards   -It was later determined that the unidentified victims were  -Kathleen Maloney, Rita Nelson, and Hectorina MacLennan    -Kathleen was a sexworker experiencing homelessness -She looked older than she was, and had troubles with alcohol.  -Several bars had banned her for obnoxious singing… -too much red wine -She called it a “jolly jump up” -But she didn’t have a great start to her life -She was orphaned at age 3, raised by nuns -Seemingly no one wanted anything to do with her -terribly sad. -Kathleen was lured in by Reg when they met at a fish and chips place -He wanted her for a photoshoot -something he did often with sex-workers -the morning after the murder, Reg stepped around her dead body -and made tea. -Rita, 6 months pregnant, stumbled into Reg’s trap while at a cafe -She asked him for cigarette. -He admitted to eavesdropping on a conversation she was having a friend -Rita was looking for a new flat, and Reg had one she might be interested in.  -She unfortunately had arrived alone.  -Reg claims to have filled the room with gas...but that doesn’t make sense, since he would have been gassed himself.  -However, she did black out -and shortly later was strangled so hard, it broke her neck. -She was only 25 -Hectorina -who was 27 at the time of her death -bounced between two relationships at the time -one with a married man, the other who was in prison -She was a vulnerable woman, struggling to survive in London -She met Reg outside of a movie theater, -he was offering to sublet his flat to her and her boyfriend -hours after Hectorina’s murder, her boyfriend showed up wondering where she was.  -Reg walked him through, room to room. -He left, finding nothing -Due to the small size of the flat, and it being empty, police found very little else inside.  -but on the second search, two days later -they made their way to the garden.  -There, they discovered burnt bone fragments in a bucket, that led them to excavate -Ruth and Muriel were finally found.  -in a pile of garbage in the garden, they found a tin that once held cough drops -Inside were four clumps of matted public hair -Momentos left behind.    -Now considered the main suspect, Reg was on the run...kinda. -He had gotten a bed at a hostel in central London, -paying for several days, using his real name. -Even though his name and face were on the front of all newspapers -He went to the movies -and Relaxed at cafes   -And 11 days after he left, on Tuesday March 31st, 1953, at 9:30AM -a police officer approached a disheveled Reg, watching a river barge being loaded.  -when asked for ID, he said he didn’t have any.   -The officer requested he remove his hat. -The bald head and glasses gave him away.    -In the pockets of his wrinkled raincoat was his ID,  -some coins,  -and old newspaper clipping about the trail of Timothy Evans,  -with details of the murders.   -When questioned, he did mention the four bodies -but referenced “something he couldn’t quite remember” -gaging if they had discovered the bodies in the garden   -at 10:45AM, Reg was charged with murder.    -The trial of John Reginald Halliday Christie began on Monday 22nd June 1953 in Court One of The Old Bailey -The same courtroom that Tim Evans was tried in….   -and again, that weird British rule, you can only be charged for one murder at a time -the selected victim was his wife, Ethel.  -Reg tried to plead insanity, but he was determined to have a hysterical personality  but was not insane -and honesty, i haven’t heard him say one funny thing yet...i don’t know where they got that ;)   -When insanity fell away, he settled into having a spotty memory of the events.  -After four days proceedings, it only took the july an hour and 20 minutes of deliberation.  -on Thursday June 25th 1953 -Reg was found guilty of murder.  -He did not appeal the conviction   -While awaiting execution, Reg spent his time playing dominos, and clipping out articles about himself.  -He willingly spoke of his crimes, revealing details of the murders to guards.  -a stark difference to how he spoke before his conviction -where he said he DID kill the women, but it wasn’t his fault.   -On the morning of July 15th, 1953 In the same execution chamber, and with the same executioner who had hung Tim Evans -a man who was eventually given a posthumous pardon for the murder of his wife and daughter -Reg stood -Hands tied behind his back, a noose around his neck.  -He refused last words and whiskey,  -but did mention to the hangman that the rope made his neck itch -he replied, “it won’t bother you for long”.  -The trap doors opened,  -Reg fell seven and a half feet before the rope caught him -dislocating his 3rd and 4th vertebrae -he was dead.    -His body was buried within the walls of the prison.   -and back to that tin of pubes real quick… -He claimed they belonged to the four victims found in the house on 10 Rillington Place -which was eventually flattened in 1978 -however...they only matched one.   -It’s very likely that Reg killed more people than what we know, -but no further attempts to identify victims have been made. -And similar to the visual of “the old man” disappearing into the black, coal smoke of a basement -if there is a hell, I hope Reg was forced to descend into it’s pits.  -May his back and belly ache forever.  -Merry Christmas, Kelly. -Merry Christmas, everyone!   

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Author of the book “The Great Smog of India” Siddharth Singh says the COVID-19 lockdown has both exacerbated and relieved the smog situation in India. Singh was speaking to Radio Islam on Friday about his new book which details the air pollution in India.

On an all new episode of "Uncle, Please Sit!", Joel and Tushar chat with energy policy expert and author of The Great Smog of India,Siddharth Singh, about air pollution in India.Over the last three decades, India has seen unprecedented economic growth. Unfortunately, this growth has been accompanied by an exponential rise in air pollution that is making our cities almost unlivable. Having extensively researched this topic, Siddharth elaborates on the reasons behind this drastic drop in air quality, the measure being taken to improve it, and why it needs to be our number one priority. Click through to check out the episode!You can follow Siddharth on twitter: @siddharth3(https://twitter.com/siddharth3)Get in touch with our hosts on their social media:Tushar Abhichandani on Twitter and Instagram:@YawnOkPlease (https://twitter.com/YawnOkPlease)@tushar_abhi (https://www.instagram.com/tushar_abhi/)Joel Pereira on Twitter and Instagram:@pereirajoel (https://twitter.com/pereirajoel)@joelpereira.esq (https://www.instagram.com/joelpereira.esq/)You can listen to Paisa Vaisa Podcast: (https://ivmpodcasts.com/paisavaisa)You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/

Weiter geht's mit unserer Tour durch London: nach dem ersten Teil brauchen wir jetzt erstmal ein Bier, hören dabei Musik, die untrennbar mit London verbunden ist, blicken anschließend mit Hilfe des bekanntesten TV-Senders in die popkulturelle Vergangenheit der Stadt und auf eine Band, deren Macher wir bereits im ersten Teil kennengelernt haben. Einen Filmtipp haben wir auch im Gepäck und natürlich wie immer eine Menge guter Musik. British pubs are disappearing - here's why https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZgv1jt4oLY Music around us - New Wave (1980) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFBSnX3GUaQ Ultravox - Vienna (Live Aid 1985) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JLTC1_Rv4k Ultravox - Vienna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJeWySiuq1I 75 years of BBC TV from Alexandra Palace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOQCA0r1PZk The Story of Ready Steady Go! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et-8l8je354 Top Of The Pops - Nirvana https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzRAZ1uS-Ao Top Of The Pops - Oasis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6M93SDCl-g 54321 - Manfred Mann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odqSCLHSPkU Alan Parsons Project - Sirius / Chicago Bulls Introduction 1997 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn6kiimEsYc Alan Parsons Project - Sirius & Eye in the Sky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_NNCNDYEpU 5th December 1952: The Great Smog of London begins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xajjmbJrfEM Midnight Lace Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozEIitjahuU Dizzee Rascal - Sirens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPpxxrl0xhM The Sound - Contact the Fact https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOURVKvXUaU Reading the Scum Manifesto / My Drunk Feminism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcTIf53KlU8 S.C.U.M. Interview & Performance - Interview at Dazed TV Party (2011) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN0UL4JjdLY S.C.U.M. - Whitechapel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoYszf-37Tk

Researcher and educator C. Arden Pope, III, PhD is the Mary Lou Fulton Professor of Economics at Brigham Young University. Contributing to over three decades of published research, he is one of the world's most cited and recognised experts on the health effects of air pollution. He has taught and published on various natural resource and environmental issues and collaborated on a series of seminal studies on the human health effects of air pollution. On this podcast, Dr Pope and I discuss the harmful effects of air pollution on health and longevity. He describes the impact of fine particulate matter generated from industrial processes and explains what makes some forms of pollution much worse than others. He also describes the disastrous effects of air pollution on endothelial function and the cardiovascular system and offers advice for limiting exposure and taking action. Here’s the outline of this interview with C. Arden Pope: [00:01:26] Dr. Malcolm Kendrick podcasts: Why Cholesterol Levels Have No Effect on Cardiovascular Disease (And Things to Think about Instead) and A Statin Nation: Damaging Millions in a Brave New Post-health World.  [00:02:21] Studies describing effects of air pollution on the cardiovascular system: 1. Pope III, C. Arden, et al. "Exposure to fine particulate air pollution is associated with endothelial injury and systemic inflammation." Circulation research 119.11 (2016): 1204-1214; 2. Pope III, C. Arden, Aaron J. Cohen, and Richard T. Burnett. "Cardiovascular disease and fine particulate matter: lessons and limitations of an integrated exposure–response approach." Circulation research 122.12 (2018): 1645-1647. [00:05:13] Hospital admissions in Utah Valley related to steel mill; Pope 3rd, C. A. "Respiratory disease associated with community air pollution and a steel mill, Utah Valley." American journal of public health 79.5 (1989): 623-628.  [00:11:17] Air pollution as the 5th leading contributor to global burden of disease. [00:11:48] Book: Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman. [00:17:26] Book: The Big Smoke, by Nathan Srith. [00:19:05] The Great Smog of London, 1952. [00:19:56] Respiratory physiologist, David Bates. [00:23:53] Harvard six cities study: Dockery, Douglas W., et al. "An association between air pollution and mortality in six US cities." New England journal of medicine 329.24 (1993): 1753-1759, and the American Cancer Society Cohort Studies. [00:24:22] PM 2.5 (fine particulate matter) and adverse health outcomes. [00:31:20] Large vs small particles in the air. [00:39:37] Inflammatory effects of fine particulate matter; slide from this talk. [00:43:26] Air pollution associated with increases in inflammatory markers. [00:47:29] Peter Backx, PhD; Podcast: Arrhythmias in Endurance Athletes. [00:49:21] Wildfires; Air pollution from wood smoke vs "urban dirt". [00:58:47] Air pollution and life expectancy; Pope, C. Arden, and Douglas W. Dockery. "Air pollution and life expectancy in China and beyond." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110.32 (2013): 12861-12862. [01:00:14] How to reduce exposure. [01:06:24] Elementary school absences related to air pollution in Park City, UT; Study: Hales, Nicholas M., et al. "A quasi-experimental analysis of elementary school absences and fine particulate air pollution." Medicine 95.9 (2016). [01:10:12] Global burden of disease attributable to air pollution; Study: Cohen, Aaron J., et al. "Estimates and 25-year trends of the global burden of disease attributable to ambient air pollution: an analysis of data from the Global Burden of Diseases Study 2015." The Lancet 389.10082 (2017): 1907-1918. [01:13:16] Supporting the Clean Air Act. [01:15:15] Dr Pope’s CV and publications. [01:20:45] Video: Keynote: Air Pollution and Human Health—Science, Public Policy, and Controversy. See here for additional videos featuring Dr Pope.

This week, Jamie and Sofia talk about the 2001 adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel, From Hell. Join us for a discussion of Jack the Ripper, Alan Moore's famous hatred of filmed adaptations of his work, living conditions in Whitechapel, pea soup fogs, and more! Sources: Movie Production Background: From Hell, IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120681/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Tor.com, The Great Alan Moore Re-read Living Conditions in Whitechapel: BBC America, "Whitechapel".  Virtually London: Whitechapel National Geographic, "Who Was Jack the Ripper?" Charles Booth, Poverty Map Charles Booth's Notebooks Pea Soup Fogs: Peter Thorsheim, "Interpreting the London Fog Disaster of 1952," in Smoke and Mirrors: The Politics and Culture of Air Pollution, ed. E. Melanie DuPuis (New York: NYU Press, 2004) Christine L. Corton, London Fog: The Biography (Harvard University Press, 2017) The Guardian, "Sixty Years Since the Great Smog of London, In Pictures."

This week on Historia Obscura: how a devastating smog killed thousands of Londoners in just five days (suggested by a Historia Obscura fan). Special thanks to Patreon subscriber SoDakZak! Subscribe to my Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/historiaobscura! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/historiaobscura/message

พูดคุยกับคุณแฮม ธัชพล Host จาก File Not Found Podcast เกี่ยวกับเรื่องเล่าของฝุ่นที่แปลกๆ รอบโลก ไม่ว่าจะเป็นเหตุการณ์สะเทือนขวัญอย่าง The Great Smog of London ที่เกิดหมอกปกคลุมกลางเมืองหลวงของอังกฤษ มีผู้เสียชีวิตหลักพัน และมาดูวิธีการแก้ปัญหาฝุ่นตามสไตล์ของพี่จีน ในยุคประธานาธิบดี สีจิ้นผิง

“befogged in mind” [SIGN]   Weather conditions not only play a part in the settings of the Sherlock Holmes stories, but in some cases, they determine the plots as well. Fog, London and Baker Street seem to go hand in hand in 1890s London, but London's fogs are more than weather conditions. How did fog color Sherlock Holmes's view of the criminal world, and which stories saw an impact from this misty and mysterious phenomenon? It's just a trifle.   Have you left us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts yet? You don't need to own an Apple device, and every review helps more people find the show.  We're available everywhere you listen to podcasts, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, SoundCloud, and RadioPublic. And please consider supporting our efforts through Patreon or PayPal.   Links / Notes This episode: ihose.co/trifles157 Great Smog of London (Wikipedia) Pea-souper (Wikipedia)   Sponsor The Baker Street Journal   Music credits Performers: Uncredited violinist, US Marine Chamber Orchestra Publisher Info.: Washington, DC: United States Marine Band Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0   --  

Energy security — what does it really mean? Can a country like India, heavily dependent on imports for its energy demands ever become energy secure? What are the global trends on oil, natural gas, nuclear, and renewable sources of energy? These are some themes we explore in this episode with Siddharth Singh @siddharth3, a climate change and energy policy researcher, and author of ‘The Great Smog of India’. पर्याप्त ऊर्जा संसाधन हर देश की समृद्धि का एक महत्वपूर्ण स्तंभ है | तो इस विषय पर एक गहरी पुलियाबाज़ी तो बनती ही है | क्या विश्व के ऊर्जा संसाधन जल्द लुप्त हो जाएंगे? क्या सौर्य और वायु ऊर्जा कोयले और पेट्रोल कीजगह ले सकते है? परमाणु ऊर्जा को भारत में नकारात्मक रूप से क्यों देखा जाता है? भारत का ऊर्जा भविष्य कैसा होगा? इन सब सवालों पर चर्चा क्लाइमेट और एनर्जी पॉलिसी रिसर्चर सिद्धार्थ सिंह के साथ| Puliyabaazi is on these platforms: Twitter: https://twitter.com/puliyabaazi Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/puliyabaazi  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/puliyabaazi/  Subscribe & listen to the podcast on iTunes  , Google Podcasts, Castbox , AudioBoom  , YouTube  or any other podcast app.

On this day in 1952, a toxic smog that killed thousands of people descended on London. Click here to learn more about the incident in an episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class called "The Great London Smog."  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

There are many stories about the air pollution that has enshrouded Delhi since last month. Most of those stories, though, repeat only the basic facts.

Welcome to Episode 59! This week Emma discusses the history around Turnbull Canyon in Whittier, California. Let's just say that the canyon has a little bit of everything. Anish's story is about a serial killer who used the Great Smog of 1952 to hide his murders. His tale is about the Rillington Strangler. We also chat about a couple of movies (Spiderman: Far from Home and The Exorcist), another Netflix binge (Man like Mobeen), and the first battle between Liverpool & Man City. Send us your own suggestions/fun facts/stories through our gmail (everythinginpodcast@gmail.com) or through our website (www.everythingpodcast.weebly.com)! And of course, follow us on instagram @everythinginpodcast and twitter @between_podcast. Our spotify playlist is called The Soundtrack In Between - feel free to check it out! Enjoy!

We're charged up for this weeks topic. Seriously though, generating power kills lots of people. Join us as we discuss the myriad ways power generation is deadly such as burning alive on windmills, cooking birds mid flight for solar energy, and setting an ocean on fire as a diversion. Sources: https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=generate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_engine https://www.tva.com/Energy/Our-Power-System/Coal/How-a-Coal-Plant-Works https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/solar/solar-thermal-power-plants.php https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/how-nuclear-power-works https://www.energy.gov/maps/how-does-wind-turbine-work http://www.wvic.com/content/how_hydropower_works.cfm https://www.top-ee.com/diesel-power-plant/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy https://www.investopedia.com/terms/k/kyoto.asp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_power_generation https://www.brighthubengineering.com/power-plants/72369-compare-the-efficiency-of-different-power-plants/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_generation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benxihu_Colliery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2018/01/25/natural-gas-and-the-new-deathprint-for-energy/#2d569485e197 https://www.thoughtco.com/environmental-consequences-of-oil-spills-1204088 https://www.cleanerseas.com/10-worst-oil-spills-in-world-history/ https://www.marineinsight.com/environment/11-major-oil-spills-of-the-maritime-world/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_East_Ohio_Gas_explosion https://www.sciencealert.com/this-solar-plant-accidentally-incinerates-up-to-6-000-birds-a-year https://firsttoknow.com/in-october-2013-two-engineers-became-trapped-on-a-burning-wind-turbine-this-was-their-final-picture/ https://www.boredpanda.com/story-radioactive-boy-scout-david-hahn/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

Host Snigdha Sharma and Newslaundry correspondents Ayush Tiwari and Basant Kumar are joined by Siddharth Singh, an energy, mobility and climate policy expert and author of the book The Great Smog of India for this episode of Reporters Without Orders.The panel extensively discusses the persistent matter of air pollution. Snigdha thinks the issue does not get its fair share of coverage by the Indian media. Siddharth talks about his book and what led him to write it. He explains how India's use of outdated technology and fossil fuels, together with its geographical conditions, compound the problem of pollution. He bemoans the lack of a consolidated approach in dealing with the issue. In this context, the panel talks about China's Blue Sky Initiative and the immediate need of making climate a political issue.The panel discuss the important news stories of the week. Speaking about his visit to Haryana to cover the elections, Ayush explains how ground issues were absent from both the campaign and media's coverage. In the same vein, Basant says he is disappointed with the media's coverage of the Ayodhya dispute. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, The Alarmist, Rebecca Delgado Smith decides who is to blame for the Great Smog of London that killed 12,000 people. She is joined by Amanda Lund and Maria Blasucci (The Big Ones Podcast). Hitler is back on the board along with pollution and that big city lifestyle. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/alarmist. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we use Episode 2 of Captain Planet as our guide to look at the devastating effects of acid rain. We talk about an Eco Emergency in Germany's forests, and recount the terrifying story of The Great Smog of London. We end the show with an uplifting story about a badass Greenpeace activist who risked her life protecting our planet.

Conor McGregor is roasted, The Great Smog of London is made light of, and then J.P. McDade, Diego Lopez, Caitlin Peluffo, Patrick Schroeder, Auggie Lutz and Eli Sairs roast each other until the cows come home af Follow these scumbags: @jp_mcdade, @thisdiegolopez, @caitlinpeluffo, @Schrotime, @elisairs, @AuggieLutz Art by Diego Pimentel, @_diegopimentel on Insta Video on YouTube! Search the title n' subscribe to the channel how bout

It happened unexpectedly. The whole city was afraid. No one could see. Many could not breathe. And amid the terror of London's Great Smog of 1952, a different, equally sinister drama was underway. The London Smog killed an estimated 12,000 people. But those were not the only people who died in those dark days. Kate Winkler Dawson’s book, Death in the Air, tells two parallel stories of the Great Smog, both of which left victims choking.

What was behind the mysterious increase in lung cancer deaths at the turn of the 20th century? The first of a three-parter investigating the cigarette-smoking link and causality, this episode looks at that early debate, which largely focused on environmental pollution. Along the way, we’re going to talk about toxic vapors -- and not Miasma theory, but the actual literal Great Smog of London in 1952 that killed over 10,000 people -- as well as the birth of the case-control study, Nazi attempts at tobacco control programs, and the rather prosaic beginnings of a debate that rages to this day. Plus a new #AdamAnswers about the medical cause of Game of Thrones greyscale featuring Dr. Jules Lipoff!   Sources: Bell, M. L., Davis, D. L. & Fletcher, T. A retrospective assessment of mortality from the London smog episode of 1952: the role of influenza and pollution. Environ Health Persp 112, 6–8 (2003). Brunekreef B, Air Pollution and Life Expectancy: Is There a Relation? Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Vol. 54, No. 11 (Nov., 1997), pp. 781-784. Des Voeux HC, Smoke and Fog, The Lancet, 1679-1680 (1904). Logan WPD, Mortality in the London Fog Incident, 1952. The Lancet, 336-338 (1953). Heirdorn KC, The Weather Doctor's Weather Almanac: The Infamous London Smog of 1952, 2012. HOFFMAN, F. L. CANCER AND SMOKING HABITS. Ann Surg 93, 50–67 (1931). Morabia, A. Quality, originality, and significance of the 1939 “Tobacco consumption and lung carcinoma” article by Mueller, including translation of a section of the paper. Prev Med 55, 171–177 (2012). Ochsner, A. My first recognition of the relationship of smoking and lung cancer. Prev Med 2, 611–614 (1973). Ochsner, A. & bakey. Primary pulmonary malignancy: treatment by total pneumonectomy; analysis of 79 collected cases and presentation of 7 personal cases. Ochsner J 1, 109–25 (1999). Parascandola, M. Two approaches to etiology: the debate over smoking and lung cancer in the 1950s. Endeavour 28, 81–86 (2004). Press, D. J. & Pharoah, P. Risk Factors for Breast Cancer. Epidemiology 21, 566–572 (2010). Proctor, R. Angel H Roffo: the forgotten father of experimental tobacco carcinogenesis. B World Health Organ 84, 494–495 (2006). Proctor, R. N. The anti-tobacco campaign of the Nazis: a little known aspect of public health in Germany, 1933–45. Bmj 313, 1450 (1996). Proctor, R. On playing the Nazi card. Tob Control 17, 289–290 (2008). Winkelstein, W. Vignettes of the History of Epidemiology: Three Firsts by Janet Elizabeth Lane-Claypon. Am J Epidemiol 160, 97–101 (2004). Proctor R, The history of the discovery of the cigarette–lung cancer link: evidentiary traditions, corporate denial, global toll. Tobacco Control. 21:2 (2013).

Click here to buy: https://adbl.co/2u0R8jv 'My mum always said, a fistful of rings is as good as a knuckleduster' As the Great Smog falls over London in 1952, Florrie Palmer has a choice to make. Will she stay with the Cutters, a gang of female criminals who have terrorized London for years and are led by her own mother? Or leave it all behind to make a safer, duller life with the man she loves? And what will she do if she's too crooked to go straight, and too good to go bad? Over the next five days, Florrie will have to find her own path and the courage to stumble along it - in a fog so thick that she can't see her own feet. Following the last days of a crumbling female gang in post-war London, this is a story of family, of love, of finding your way, and of deciphering a route through the greyest areas of morality. Read by Clare Corbett (p) Orion Publishing Group 2018

Ten true facts about the Great Smog that happened in London in 1952 and that was portrayed in The Crown series (S1E4

It's 1952 and London looks like the set of an 80s music video. In what historians will one day call the fifth episode of the CB Wallop Podcast, join Comedians Phil Lucas and Phil Jerrod as they discuss the THE BLACK FOG OF 1952 - the terrible sulphurous cloud of soot and pollution that cloaked London for a good five days causing the deaths of over 4000 people. But did Londoners bollocks on about it all on Facebook? No.. no they didn't. Music by Steve Adam Production by Mike Sandeman - http://www.northbrightonrecording.co.uk/ Audio Clips: The Smog Menace (1953) British Pathe (Neg.) (Title Scene "D") FILM ID:124.15 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT'S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. http://www.britishpathe.tv/ FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT http://www.britishpathe.com/ British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 120,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1979. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website. https://www.britishpathe.com/ "Collapse" myuu Creepypasta Music http://youtube.com/myuuji http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvD8QS… Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b…

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David and Rachel discuss the massive Great Smog of London in 1952.

When Londoners woke up on December 5 in 1952, they found the entire city covered in a mass of smog. London had been battling pollution from coal burning since the 13th century, and large smog events had taken place elsewhere in the world in the preceding two centuries. Yet the Great Smog of London, as it would become known, was something truly different. It occurred because of an anticyclone, a spinning of air that actually creates a layer of still, unmoving air and a dense fog. When that fog mixed with the ever present pollution in London, a special kind of "pea soup fog," so called for its resemblance to the foodstuff, had overwhelmed the entire city. Visibility was reduced to just a few metres, and very few events took place outside. Trains could only run with the help of loud auditory aids. At the time, hospitals recorded 4,000 deaths, but that was low because ambulances were not running. Most likely, something like 12,000 people passed away from breathing problems and visibility related deaths. In 1956, Parliament passed the Clean Air Act, which helped to ensure that no further great smogs could take place.

Think of a city with an air pollution problem and, a few years ago, Beijing probably would have sprung to mind. Dense smog, citizens in face masks, this was a problem that cities like London had left behind after the Clean Air Act of 1956 dealt with the problems caused by the great Smog of 1952. But while London and other cities in the UK don’t suffer from a Great Smog today, they are feeling the effects of air pollution in far greater ways than many of us have realised. An estimated 40,000 deaths each year are attributable in some way to air pollution. Too many cars, of which too many of those are diesel, are causing serious health problems. the mayor of greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, from the chair of the transport select committee, Lilian Greenwood; Sarah Macfadyen at the British Lung Foundation, and the science editor of Buzzfeed News, Kelly Oakes In this week’s show, Steve Bloomfield and Stephanie Boland are joined by: · Lilian Greenwood, chair of the transport select committee · Kelly Oakes, science editor, Buzzfeed UK · Sarah Macfadyen, policy manager, British Lung Foundation Get in touch Steve: https://twitter.com/BloomfieldSJ Steph: https://twitter.com/stephanieboland Further reading Here’s Kelly’s piece on Brixton Road and its air pollution: https://www.buzzfeed.com/kellyoakes/this-london-road-has-breached-its-annual-air-pollution-limit?utm_term=.wgXP2vEK9#.utDYk4ryz Here’s the British Lung Foundation’s very useful explainer on air pollution: https://www.blf.org.uk/support-for-you/air-pollution Here are those adverts about air pollution that Steph mentioned: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/hardhitting-air-pollution-posters-to-go-on-display-on-londons-tube-network-a3661891.html

In 1952 a fog in London left 4,000 dead in just 4 days but many more would die before the causes could be rectified. Worse than that, it had happened before and it’s happening again right now, somewhere else. With John Chidgey. Links of potential interest: Inversion (meteorology) Great Smog of London Battersea Power Station Clean Air Act 1956 Trams in London 1948 Donora Smog Pollution in China Support Causality on Patreon

Creeping tendrils of smoke particles and sulfur dioxide wound their way through the fog already blanketing London on the evening of December 5, 1952. When it infiltrated the harmless fog, those dangerous invaders turned the mist into a lethal smog so thick you couldn't see an inch in front of you. Thousands would die before anyone would realize the effects of the smog on Londoners.

Poison Boy interrupts the Super Bowl hijinks to throw down some tox knowledge, covering one of the most infamous poisonings in history - the Teikoku Ginko bank murders. Then in the Venomous Media Review we discuss one of the most important books of the year - Physician Suicide Letters Answered by Pamela Wible. We wrap up the podcast with This Week in Tox History as we discuss such disparate and incredible events as the first production of Romeo and Juliet, the Great Smog of London, the Brenda Spice murders and The Boomtown Rats. We discuss the posthumous execution of Oliver Cromwell and drug busts involving The Grateful Dead, The Jefferson Airplane and Linda McCartney as well as the Lindbergh Kidnapping, the Opium Wars, Minnie the Moocher and everything else that happened in the history of the world on the world's greatest podcast!

节目组：The World Says 世界说节目名称: Air Pollution Around the World 世界中的空气污染音乐：Cuckoo-Adam LambertG:hello my dear audience, welcome to today's the world says, I'm Georgia.V:hello, I'm your old friend value.E: hello, this is elvis.G: value, elvis, have you two bought masks on line during 11.11 since the haze weather so serious in Shenyang.V: of course, I have bought two dozen of anti- haze masks, people all call them n95 mask.G: cool, hope that anti-haze masks will work.E: hey, Georgia value, since the haze so serious, who can tell me how the haze was formed?G: Fog and haze came originates from the horrible air quality and heavy industrial pollutions. The tail-gas from cars, residual heater gas, and industrial waste all contributes to this. V：Fog and haze does not only cause pollution, but are also harmful to people. When inhaled, it could cause serious damage to the human body. In worst cases, it could even result in death. G: oh my gosh! It's so horrible! E:In addition to China, are there the haze weather occurred to any other country? G: sure, and haze was called smog during Industrial Revolution. Over several Centuries, human have struggled with haze. In the early 19th century, people call London the foggy city cause the air in London is full of smog.V: Smog is a type of air pollutant. The word "smog" was coined as a portmanteau of the words smoke and fog to refer to smoky fog.G: Result from Industrial Revolution, not only England but also American suffered from haze.V: Modern smog, as found for example in Los Angeles, is a type of air pollution derived from vehicular emission from internal combustion engines and industrial fumes that react in the atmosphere with sunlight to form minor pollutants that also combine with the primary productions to form photochemical smog. G:Since 1991, haze has been a particularly severe problem in Southeast Asia. The main source of the haze has been fires occurring in Sumatra and Borneo. V:In2002,all ASEAN countries except Indonesia signed the Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution, but the pollution is still a problem today. E:but we all know that the environment in European countries and north America. How did they deal with haze?V: In 1306, concerns over air pollution were enough for Edward I to ban coal fires in London.in 1661, John Evelyn's Fumifugium suggested burning fragrant wood instead of mineral coal, which he believed would reduce coughing. G:but it seems no use. The Great Smog of 1952 darkened the streets of London and killed approximately 4,000 people in the short time of 4 days. Originally a flu widespread was blamed for the loss of life.V: In 1956 the Clean Air Act started legally enforcing smokeless zones in the capital. There were areas where no soft coal was allowed to be burned in homes or in businesses, only coke, which produces no smoke.G: It was after this that the great clean-up of London began.V:yes, now let' see how do American deal with haze.E: ok ~for example, Los Angeles and the San Joaquin ValleyG:Because of their locations in low basins surrounded by mountains, Los Angeles and the San Joaquin Valley are infamous for their smog. V: Though Los Angeles was one of the best known cities suffering from transportation smog for much of the V0th century, so much so that it was sometimes said that Los Angeles was a synonym for smog.G: strict regulations by government works overseeing this problem, including tight restrictions on allowed emissions levels for all new cars sold in California and set regular emission tests of older vehicles, resulted in significant improvements in air quality.V: For example, air concentrations of volatile organic compounds declined by a factor of 50 between G96V and V0GV. Concentrations of air pollutants such as nitrous oxides and ozone declined by 70% to 80% over the same period of time.G:wow, so Effective! Now China's haze is like the original London, we must take methods to control it.插曲：《What Do You Mean》V: you know guys, When it comes to PM2.5 pollution—tiny,grungy particlesdischarged into the air by factories, boilers and motor vehicles, which damage respiration—the Chinese government says 35 micro-grams per cubic meter is a healthy maximum.E: really?! But over the weekend, Shenyang endured PM2.5 readings that exceeded 1000,even1400 micro-grams per cubic meter at some measuring stations, according to Xinhua. 在中国，顽固的雾霾已经引发了像“末日空气”(airpocalypse)和“糟糕透顶”(crazybad)这样夸张的说法，但即使在这样一个国家，沈阳的PM2.5数字也不免令人惊惧。V: Pictures from the city showed hardy residents plowing on bicycles througha gray atmospheric soup that cut visibility to just a few dozen feet.Andeven XinHua scolded the city government,accusing it of failing to enforceemergency measures to cut smog and to warn citizens to stay indoors.G:“有人提出质疑，面对如此重度雾霾污染，政府应急预案为何‘梗阻'？”新华社写道。E:“A plan seems to have covered every angle,but in practice how workable is it?” asked Bi Deli,an environmental researcher in Shenyang, according toXinhua. “Channels of communication are blocked, and instructions are not really implemented.”V: The smog enveloped much of northeastern China, perhaps puzzling at a time when a slowing economy has reduced industrial production across the region. But the burst of pollution has coincided with the onset offwinter, when boilers fire up to heat buildings, and a similar pall of smog arrived at about the same time last year and the year before.E: 但沈阳市环保局信息公开处处长乔旭在接受电话采访时表示，这次雾霾的罪魁祸首，很可能是农民在收获庄稼之后焚烧秸秆和残茬的做法。V: Further chemical tests of the smog would give investigators clues to what caused it, but it didn't show heavy concentrations of sulfur dioxide,which usually accompanies smog from coal burning, she said.E: “This pollution was not restricted to Shenyang.The entire northeast hassbeen affected,” Ms.Qiao乔 said. “That shows that Shenyang's local pollution has not played a decisive role.”V: But wherever the pollution comes from,Chinese people appear increasingly impatient with toxic air.Leaders have repeatedly promised to reduce pollution,and citizen shave become much more aware of the threat to health from smog. 笨重的口罩曾让人觉得新奇，是外籍人士喜欢用的，现在却变得很普遍。在网上，人们对最近这一轮空气质量危机也发出了抱怨。E: “What have you been doing about it?”one person wrote on the microblog of the Sheyang Bureau of Environmental Protection.“You just send outa microblog and that's it? Wait for the wind to blow it away?”V:“When the smog is off the charts, you, the environmental authorities, can only tell residents to protect themselves,” another wrote.“Incompetent shameless, useless.”E:Ms. Qiao, the environment official, in turn,criticized Xinhua for its report on Shenyang, but she did not deny that the pollution measure had surpassed 1,400.V:“The Xinhua reporter had the contact information for the Bureau of Environ mental Protection,my office and me personally,” she said, adding that she has not been contacted by the reporter.“I will not offer comment on their report.E: By Monday, measures of PM2.5 in Shenyang had dropped to below 300, before rising again in the evening, and the city government downgraded its warning to residents.到了周一，沈阳的PM2.5指数降到了300以下，但到傍晚再次升高。该市政府调低了对民众的警告。V: European and American countries of atmospheric governance case involves public participation and promote. Especially in the Los Angeles atmospheric governance, it is the direct result of public opinion to participate in and promote.It need higher national quality on one hand, on the other hand,you need to have unobstructed channels of public participation.E: yes, that's true.But in our country,national quality is much less than the European and American countries. Now able to form a science of fog is not much,most people still ignore the status, even what is the haze is unknown, how is it possible to take action?V:ok, that's all for our topic today. Thank you all.插曲：《Whataya want from me》E: Oh, It's a beautiful evening, nice weather, fresh air, and the pretty campus. All in all, everything looks well tonight.G: I think your comfortable feeling owed to the Shopping day--double eleven. And it's just the shopping makes you happy.E: Yep, I had gotten the things which I wanted. I'm so excited!G: So…How much do you pay for the Alibaba-马云E: Well… just a little. What about you?G: Oh…I just wanted all of the clothes over the internet. 我估计这个月剩下的这十几天我就只能吃土了…….E: haha, not so bad~G: So What's our topic today? The shopping online?E: No, no. I want to talk America with you guys. As a matter of routine.G: Okay. E: So I want to talk about the America's food in the beginning.G: Oh! No! I have not eaten the dinner! I'm so hungry! Don't talk food! Help me! Georgia.E: Obviously, she has no food.G: Yeah… you get it.E: 放弃吧，Value，让我们先来一起为大家介绍下美国G: Well, go on…E: Okay, my dear audience. Tonight , we are talking about the American food. So…Refer to the American food, what's your first thought, Value?G: Well...the KFC? And ...the McDonald's? There are so many fast food restaurants settled down China. Do you like it? Such as hamburgers and French fries and so on.E: Well…Just ok. Maybe all of us will in mind of the KFC and the McDonald's for the first thought. So Value, do you know that whether they are also popular in the United States?G: may be. I have heard the foreigner who called Mathew said he likes KFC from our English corner.E: Wow…So is it represents the main melody of the American diet? G: What do you mean? E: I mean… do you agree with that Fast food is the typical American diet culture, it is very popular. We can draw a conclusion that the theme of the America food is fast and convenient.G: What? Can you prove that?E: Yeah…There is a question. How to prove the conclusion? I think we'd better study in a day from the Americans. So… Geogre. What's your regular meals?G: e… I have eaten a bread, two eggs and a gruel for my breakfast.E: Wow, 那可真不少G: Well, it's smaller than you, ok?E: Yeah, you get it. I'm eating more than you. So you can go on your words.G: Well, my lunch is just a bowl of noodle.E: Anything else? G: no! E: Come on, Value! We are taking the program! Please!V: Okay, may be a steamed bun. E: One?V: One! E: Okay…那么大声干嘛，震的我耳朵都疼了You eaten the noodles every day?G: Well, I would like to eaten the rice and some stir-fry.E: Wow, I get it. So what about your dinner.V: Dinner? Well, you know, we girls always eat very little for the dinner. We have to keep the body. So... may be just a gruel.E: Okay, I get it. But do you know what's the American meals?V: I don't know. So you can talk more about that.E: Ok. American breakfast is mainly about bread, milk, eggs, fruit juice, cereal, coffee, sausage, etc… Well, the lunch. As far as I know, they have fast food for lunch in working place, Usually have a sandwich, fruits, coffee, hamburgers, hot dogs, etc...And dinner is the most important of all, there are usually two dishes, such as steak, pork chops, roast pork, Fried chicken, with bread, butter, vegetables, fruits, snacks, etc… Well, there are also many people in the restaurant for E: Okay, That's all for today's program.节目监制：吴渝播音：王嵩云 王柳 周宸聿编辑：王嵩云 王柳 周宸聿制作：武晓鹏

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