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Enjoy our thread of letters to @thetimes@twitter.com after the #GreatSmog - each exactly 70 years after the original. The end of the thread starts below.

Festive wishes and thank you for all your ideas and sharing in 2022.

Breathe well and prosper! 🎄🌝 https://twitter.com/CleanAirLondon/status/1606220485624201216

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CleanAirLondon/status/1606591131319418880

#GreatSmog's 70th anniversary and lesson: Take action!
#CarolineHaslett's letter to The Times on Tuesday 23 December 1952 responded to others after her plea for all-electric houses:
#CostOfFog
"Electricity is the solution. No-one has a better one!"
https://cleanair.london/health/great-smog/
#AirPollution #ClimateChange #Electricity #Health #Histodons #History #Justice #News #Science

#GreatSmog's 70th anniversary and lesson: Take action!
Letter to The Times on Monday 22 December 1952 responding to #CarolineHaslett's plea for 'all-electric houses':
#CostOfFog
"New stoves won't work. There's no smokeless fuel. It's all hopeless."
https://cleanair.london/health/great-smog/
#AirPollution #ClimateChange #Health #Histodons #History #Justice #News #Science

#GreatSmog's 70th anniversary and lesson - Take action!
Headlines in The Times on Saturday 20 December 1952:
"Inquiry into London fog suggested [by @epuk5's Technical Committee]"
"Abnormal pollution"
Announced in House of Commons (18/12): 4,703 deaths w/e 13 Dec vs 1,852 (1951)
#AirPollution #ClimateChange #Health #History #Histodons #Justice #News #Science

#GreatSmog's 70th anniversary and lesson: Take action!
Oxford letter to The Times on 19 December 1952 responding to #CarolineHaslett's plea for 'all-electric houses'.
#CostOfFog
"OK in special cases e.g. for professional women." "But it would cost too much." "Better to buy new coal stoves."
https://cleanair.london/health/great-smog/
#AirPollution #ClimateChange #Health #History #Histodons #Justice #News #Science

#GreatSmog's 70th anniversary and lesson: Take action!
House of Commons report in The Times on Wednesday 17 December 1952
#LondonFogDeaths
Q: Mr Driberg asked how many persons died of bronchial and other ailments in London as a result of the recent severe fog
A: Mr Macleod in written reply: 2,062 in w/e 6/12 vs 1,543 in 1951

#GreatSmog's 70th anniversary and lesson: Take action! Letter to The Times on 17 December 1952 responding to #CarolineHaslett's plea for 'all-electric houses':
#CostOfFog
"We live under the rain of grits from #Battersea power station..."
#AirPollution #Climate #Health #History #Histodons #Justice #News #Science

#GreatSmog's 70th anniversary and greatest lesson: Take action! | Two replies to #CarolineHaslett's letter to The Times on 16 December 1952:
#CostOfFog
"All-electric houses rely on coal-fired power stations."
"Blame vehicle fumes too."
https://cleanair.london/health/great-smog/
#AirPollution #ClimateChange #Health #History #Histodons #Justice #News #Science

#GreatSmog's 70th anniversary: #TakeAction! | Letter to the Editor of The Times on 12 December 1952:

#CostOfFog

“I paid a heavy price for my neighbours' indulgence in solid fuel burning. My all-electric house commits no nuisance."

Caroline Haslett

More https://cleanair.london/health/great-smog/

#GreatSmog's 70th anniversary: #TakeAction! | Letter to the Editor of The Times on Wednesday 10 December 1952:

#LondonFog

“We have devised and produced miracles. This great city endures the handicap of dense fog. Is there no remedy?”

Ernest Fisk

More https://cleanair.london/health/great-smog/

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ICYMI Here’s our thread of daily news and @metoffice@twitter.com reports from before and during the #GreatSmog here. It’s well worth a read if I say so myself! #AirPollution #Archives #Climate #Health #History #HumanRights #Justice #Smog << We’ll start a new thread for the aftermath… https://twitter.com/CleanAirLondon/status/1595087118023499777

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CleanAirLondon/status/1601257751224909830

#GreatSmog's lesson - Take action! Posts about news, Parliamentary activity and scientific research from days *exactly* 70 years ago… Read with astonishment and sometimes a smile. More: https://cleanair.london/health/great-smog/ #AirPollution #Climate #Health #History #Histodons #Justice #Law #News #Science #Weather

#GreatSmog (Aftermath) | Wednesday 10 December 1952 | Met Office's #DailyWeatherRecord #DWR_1952_11: Forecast on this day 70 years ago was: "Mainly cloudy. Rain. Bright intervals. Moderate or fresh southwesterly winds. Temperatures up." Kew min/max: 4/7c. Outlook: "Cloudy. Rain."

BBC Archive footage of #GreatSmog https://twitter.com/bbcarchive/status/1599725520673017857

In this week's #5minuteGAP, Noel Nelson - Senior air quality scientist @MetOffice@twitter.com talks to Ben Hudson, Global Action Plan's Head of Insight and Engagement about what we've learned about air quality since the #GreatSmog of 1952.

Watch here: https://loom.ly/3KRWXO0

#GreatSmog's 70th anniversary | The Times headlines on Tuesday 9 December 1952 (Day 5):

Front page splash: "On the edge of the fog belt"
More deaths at cattle show
Chaos again in the fog
Many road crashes

More: https://cleanair.london/health/great-smog/

#AirPollution #Climate #Health #History #Histodons #HumanRights #Justice #Law #News #Science

#GreatSmog (Day 5) | Tuesday 9 December 1952 | Met Office's #DailyWeatherRecord #DWR_1952_11: Forecast on this day 70 years ago was: "Fog in London is likely to clear during the day and is not expected to return tonight." Kew min/max: -3/5c. Outlook: "Mild southwesterly winds."

#GreatSmog (Day 4) | Monday 8 December 1952 | Met Office's #DailyWeatherRecord #DWR_1952_11: Forecast on this day 70 years ago was: "Likely to remain foggy in London and southeast England. Temperatures normal except in foggy areas." Kew min/max: -2/3c. Outlook: "Little change."

#GreatSmog (Day 3) | Sunday 7 December 1952 | Met Office's #DailyWeatherRecord #DWR_1952_11: Forecast on this day 70 years ago was: "Dense fog and frost in London is likely to persist for next 24 hours. Frost and fog again tonight." Kew min/max: -3/1c. Outlook: "Fog in London."

In this week's #5minuteGAP, Noel Nelson - Senior air quality scientist @MetOffice@twitter.com talks to Ben Hudson, Global Action Plan's Head of Insight and Engagement about what we've learned about air quality since the #GreatSmog of 1952.

Watch here: https://loom.ly/3KRWXO0