1952 London air pollution episode
The best recognized and most disastrous air pollution episode happened on December 5, 1952 in the city of London, United Kingdom. A five-day reign of death faced the inhabitants of London. It was an extremely cold winter coupled with fog that drove the people to have an increased household burning up of coal. The domestic coal sold in the market had a high content of sulfur (Hedley, 5). There was an inversion of temperature were the smoke of the coal burned from the city’s industrial smokestacks, fireplaces, and furnaces formed a so called “
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