Mountbatten and Queen Elizabeth II's own private secretary Alan Lascelles advised her to sack Churchill and appoint a new, younger Prime Minister such as Anthony Eden. Churchill's inaction and his insistence that Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh's hobby of flying was more important than the smog led to his inter-party rival, the Marquess of Salisbury, informing Philip's uncle Louis Mountbatten of this. On the morning of the third day of the Great Smog, the great coal-burning electricity stations in Battersea and Fulham attempted to reduce their emissions of poisonous sulphur dioxide from their chimneys, but they failed to make any significant change fo the air quality. The smog's effect on the human respiratory tract killed 4,000 people during the three days of the smog, while 6,000 died in the following months. However, the smog caused major disruption by reducing visibility and even penetrating indoor areas, far more severe than previous smog events ("pea-soupers"). The meteorologists' report was ignored by the senile Prime Minister Churchill, and the two men who discovered the oncoming smog approached the Leader of the Opposition, Labour Party leader Clement Attlee, with this information in an attempt to sabotage Churchill, whose inaction ahead of the smog and misrule of the country angered them.Īs the smog progressed, Churchill insisted that it was just fog, and that it would lift. Meteorologists attributed the great smog's pollution to the over-mining of coal by the Conservative Party administration of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who insisted that the country keep burning coal irresponsibly during the cold winter of 1952 to give the illusion of a solid economy. A period of cold weather, combined with an anti-cyclone and windless conditions, collected airborne pollutants (mostly arising from the use of coal) to form a thick layer of smog over the city. The Great Smog of London was a severe air-pollution event that effected the British capital of London from 5 to 9 December 1952, killing 10,000 people and creating 200,000 medical conditions.
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