Talk:Great Smog of 1952
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[edit] Change Title, add facts
The title of this article should be changed to either "London 'Big Smoke' of 1952" or "London 'Great Fog' of 1952." The term "smog" was used by few if anyone at the time. Perhaps "Killer Fog" should be added parenthetically.
From [1] (as written below) by Tim
--24.37.141.122 (talk) 16:19, 16 December 2007 (UTC)The infamous fog of December 1952 has come to be known as 'The Great Smog'; the term 'smog' being a portmanteau word meaning 'fog intensified by smoke'. The term was coined almost half a century earlier, by HA Des Voeux, who first used it in 1905 to describe the conditions of fuliginous (sooty) fog that occurred all too often over British urban area[...]
Also, the sentence "At the same time, the final conversion of London's electric trams to diesel buses was completed" needs to be attributed or deleted. Various accounts make clear that the "fog" was in fact mostly coal smoke, trapped near ground level by an inversion layer. I doubt that any reputable authority would attribute "diesel buses" as a significant cause of the London great fog.
A factor that worsened the problem: burning of low-quality high-sulfur coal for home heating in London in order to permit export of higher-quality coal, because of the country's tenuous economic situation [2] Ldemery 07:10, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
No one has objected, so I have made the changes outlined above. Ldemery 05:06, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
...respiratory tract infections from hypoxia (low level of oxygenation of blood) due to mechanical obstruction of the air passages by pus arising from lung infections... — paraphrased: lung infections caused by hypoxia caused by pus caused by lung infections. Besides the fact that this statement is circular, hypoxia doesn't cause infections, microorganisms and viruses cause infections. 64.191.142.162 (talk) 18:31, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Lung Irritation or Inflamation
A lot of people didn't die from a lung infection, but rather a mechanical obstruction of the human breathing system by pus caused by lung irritation or inflamation; the term infection here may be misleading- (smog is not a biological agent that self-reproduce). Yes, some had infections because of the damage, but others died from other health conditions that aren't treated like an infection is treated (as a final outcome of this disaster). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.248.84.66 (talk) 23:02, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
