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TOPIC: The Great Smog of '52

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Date: Dec 6 20:29 2012

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The Great Smog of London remembered 60 years on Sixty years ago thick smog descended on London, contributing to the deaths of an estimated 4,000 people. Read more __________________

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Date: Dec 4 07:53 2012

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The Great Smog of '52 or Big Smoke was a severe air pollution event that affected London, England, during December 1952. On 4 December 1952, an anticyclone settled over a windless London, causing a temperature inversion with cold, stagnant air trapped under a layer (or "lid") of warm air. Read more __________________

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