EESA10H3 Lecture Notes - Health Canada, Butane, Year 3000
28 Oct 2013
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Case study 1: london smog, 1952 still has huge impact. it was a landmark for air pollution. Sulfuric acids and other pollutants into the air. Smog becomes so thick that it was like fog. People were chocking because of the sulfur dioxide that was causing throat problems. A man guides a london bus through thick fog with a flaming torch during the 1952 great smog. Sulfur dioxide connected to the death of people. London is very clean because of the improvement number of the species that are coming back thus air is improving and so is the human health. Case 2: indonesian fires, 1997 system uses slash and burn (burning the forest), monsoon they help to extinguish the fire. That"s how the size of the area that burns is in the control. As monsoon doesn"t arrive the size of burned area gets bigger and bigger this leads to the release of smog.
