The Deadly Fog That Killed 12,000: What Really Happened?

Could a fog really kill 12,000 people? Welcome to the Great Smog of London in 1952. Join Hank for a new episode of SciShow where we unpack this deadly pollution event and discuss how smog can actually affect life expectancy.
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  • @Thesurge747
    @Thesurge7477 жыл бұрын

    The Great Smog of London The Great Fire of London The Great Flood of London The Great Stink of London Isn't London just GREAT

  • @user-bo1fg6tw5e

    @user-bo1fg6tw5e

    7 жыл бұрын

    well I mean it is in Great Britain.

  • @jamesnewman9547

    @jamesnewman9547

    7 жыл бұрын

    Now I understand the meaning behind 'Make America Great Again!'

  • @user-if4nl2xl8e

    @user-if4nl2xl8e

    7 жыл бұрын

    Welcome to England. It sucks here.

  • @jubbatravel4037

    @jubbatravel4037

    7 жыл бұрын

    *city

  • @crucialmaniac1016

    @crucialmaniac1016

    7 жыл бұрын

    Urie!!! on Ice Lol i made the same commentthen saw yours

  • @tobitoes1052
    @tobitoes10527 жыл бұрын

    My grandad was born in it. On the way to the hospital the ambulance driver had to get out to ask for directions because he couldn't tell where they were. My great gran loved telling that story

  • @Oravankarva

    @Oravankarva

    3 жыл бұрын

    Old man story activated

  • @ValentiaTheLunatic

    @ValentiaTheLunatic

    3 жыл бұрын

    how did that affect his health? I'm a med student preparing a presentation on this, can you maybe explain a bit about how it was and what consequences it had? It'd be amazing to get information from someone who's heard about it

  • @mrcrazyasian

    @mrcrazyasian

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Mel K It probably damaged his lungs and organs a bit

  • @thetechnoking

    @thetechnoking

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ValentiaTheLunatic wanna be friends?

  • @ValentiaTheLunatic

    @ValentiaTheLunatic

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@thetechnoking sure

  • @ismailabdelirada9531
    @ismailabdelirada95315 жыл бұрын

    *"It turns out, turning the air into poison: not a good idea."* Well, crumbs! There goes our entire economic model.

  • @sMASHsound

    @sMASHsound

    3 жыл бұрын

    ikr. i think, stick it out a few thousand years and evolve to counter it... like an extremophile

  • @warrenarnold

    @warrenarnold

    2 жыл бұрын

    😅😂we have nuclear heads just in case we have to hasten the suffering, but its slow death for now

  • @Master_Therion
    @Master_Therion7 жыл бұрын

    Where was Bilbo Baggins when Smaug killed 12,000 people in London?

  • @geekfreak2000

    @geekfreak2000

    7 жыл бұрын

    Lol❤You know a fellow nerd when you see one.

  • @eidolor

    @eidolor

    7 жыл бұрын

    Was it the way she moved her hips or the full battle-dress? No, something more subtle whispered me the secret nerdiness of that fair LARP attendee.

  • @Master_Therion

    @Master_Therion

    7 жыл бұрын

    Grace Lui But wait, Benedict Cumberbatch is Sherlock... and also Smaug. This means London's Greatest Detective (and high functioning sociopath) is responsible for all those deaths!

  • @geraldgrenier8132

    @geraldgrenier8132

    7 жыл бұрын

    He was stealing the Crown jewels from the tower of London; what to you expect from a professed burglar? You should be asked "where was Bard?"

  • @TheRealSkeletor

    @TheRealSkeletor

    7 жыл бұрын

    More importantly, where was Bard the Bowman?

  • @shmuelparzal
    @shmuelparzal7 жыл бұрын

    Back in the 1950s in Lincoln (England), factories belched out black smoke that hung permanently over the city. Stone buildings like churches had a covering of 2-5 cms of hard, black gunk. It was only after the Clean Air Act that Lincoln's buildings could be cleaned, and now there's no comparison between how they looked back then and how they look now. I don't know how people could have lived with that for so long; I'm told the smoke and blackened buildings gave the city a dark, depressing feel.

  • @SatumainenOlento

    @SatumainenOlento

    4 жыл бұрын

    Like the rain hadn't been enough to make people depressed...

  • @Glopbop

    @Glopbop

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@SatumainenOlento you act like London is constantly raining 😂 😂 😂 summer is stinking hot there

  • @8avexp

    @8avexp

    2 жыл бұрын

    Pittsburgh used to be like that. When they started cleaning the soot off buildings, people were amazed to discover those buildings had different colors! Then when I visited London in1978, I was surprised to see Tower Bridge all nice and clean.

  • @NightcoreLabOfficial
    @NightcoreLabOfficial7 жыл бұрын

    I'm pretty sure I read it Frog not Fog from the notification

  • @PathiosProductions

    @PathiosProductions

    3 жыл бұрын

    A frog that killed 12,000 would make for an amazing story lol

  • @rustyschakleford2716

    @rustyschakleford2716

    3 жыл бұрын

    Mandela effect

  • @ABC-xp8bd

    @ABC-xp8bd

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same

  • @noneurbisness6521

    @noneurbisness6521

    3 жыл бұрын

    Battery low so phone auto dimmed, read 'frog', saw body count, impressed

  • @jessicaevans7847

    @jessicaevans7847

    3 жыл бұрын

    I want to hear that story.

  • @bkrharold
    @bkrharold4 жыл бұрын

    I grew up in London and remember the smogs. The smog was so thick you could literally not see your hand if you held it in front of your face. One time when I was 13 they let us out of school early because the smog was so bad. The driver of the bus I took to get home got lost. The conductor was walking in front of the bus with a torch to to guide the driver, but he ended up taking us up a driveway into a church yard, where he told us we have to all get off. Luckily I found my way home somehow passing people who looked like ghosts, trying to cover my mouth and nose with my pullover to filter the dirty sooty air.

  • @MerkhVision

    @MerkhVision

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like it was quite the experience! Thanks for sharing!

  • @croissantlover1

    @croissantlover1

    Жыл бұрын

    wow! What a story! I'm so sorry to hear you had to experience that though, I hope life has been better for you since then.

  • @cup_check_official
    @cup_check_official7 жыл бұрын

    i thought it said the frog that killed 12000 people... i thought of kermit the frog... dont know why

  • @drow7077

    @drow7077

    7 жыл бұрын

    Not Kermit, but still a frog.

  • @jkm7983

    @jkm7983

    7 жыл бұрын

    Tell Me This me too

  • @jonathanho1451

    @jonathanho1451

    7 жыл бұрын

    Same!

  • @mybackhurts7020

    @mybackhurts7020

    7 жыл бұрын

    Tell Me This your comments have been like top comment in like three videos I've watched today you got my subscription

  • @isohelss4788

    @isohelss4788

    7 жыл бұрын

    omfg me too xdd

  • @GrumpSupport
    @GrumpSupport2 жыл бұрын

    I love that pretty much universally the rest of the world would figure out, “huh this thing we’re doing is like really bad for us, let’s change it” after an amount of time, and then America sat there for an extra few decades with their arms crossed going “we’re not gonna listen to you, it isn’t that bad”.

  • @luxtenax9175
    @luxtenax91757 жыл бұрын

    The title is like something out of a campy horror movie from the 50's.

  • @TheRogueWolf

    @TheRogueWolf

    7 жыл бұрын

    "The Fog That Killed London: It's Your Last Breath, Mate"

  • @menohaveaname

    @menohaveaname

    7 жыл бұрын

    Isn't there a show coming out about killer fog soon?

  • @TheCrimsonCr0ss

    @TheCrimsonCr0ss

    7 жыл бұрын

    the mist?

  • @menohaveaname

    @menohaveaname

    7 жыл бұрын

    Yeah!

  • @youmaycallmeken

    @youmaycallmeken

    7 жыл бұрын

    1980 movie "The Fog" s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/9c/36/6b/9c366b1a027b5cf384ef6dc18521e22b.jpg "What you can't see won't hurt you... It'll kill you."

  • @d_wang9836
    @d_wang98367 жыл бұрын

    *The suns a deadly laser* Not now there's a blanket Nooo, its made out of smog

  • @geraldgrenier8132

    @geraldgrenier8132

    7 жыл бұрын

    Um isn't the sun the the opposit light source than a laser, being non coherent

  • @TheRogueWolf

    @TheRogueWolf

    7 жыл бұрын

    The clouds are only protecting us from the sun because they want to kill us themselves!

  • @MuzikBike

    @MuzikBike

    7 жыл бұрын

    You can make a religion out of that.

  • @WateverWatever04

    @WateverWatever04

    7 жыл бұрын

    Muzik Bike No. Don't.

  • @CWGminer

    @CWGminer

    7 жыл бұрын

    Oh, f*ck, now everything's dead. Wait no, here are the survivors.

  • @michaelvernon9459
    @michaelvernon94595 жыл бұрын

    At the end he said, "you're great" it really hit me. Ty hank

  • @literallylegendary6594

    @literallylegendary6594

    2 жыл бұрын

    Compliments can make people's days :)

  • @KingsleyIII
    @KingsleyIII7 жыл бұрын

    Is air pollution dangerous? Fog yeah!

  • @Jasonificatiation

    @Jasonificatiation

    7 жыл бұрын

    Someone should use that as the slogan against people who want deregulation and to abolish the EPA. FOG NO WE WONT BLOW? lol

  • @lourdesmontes9701

    @lourdesmontes9701

    7 жыл бұрын

    Hahaha I just came from a SciShow video. The puns under the comment section are always great. 😂

  • @eliascorrea8573

    @eliascorrea8573

    7 жыл бұрын

    It's far harbor all over again T-T

  • @yocto7082

    @yocto7082

    6 жыл бұрын

    corny

  • @itswarhawk

    @itswarhawk

    5 жыл бұрын

    Please kill me

  • @moritzl7065
    @moritzl70657 жыл бұрын

    This is pretty much China and India today, to a lesser extent. So yeah, 40% of the world's population is still suffering from it.

  • @youtubeaccount8056

    @youtubeaccount8056

    7 жыл бұрын

    Moritz yes and their pollution goes to other countries

  • @Cythil

    @Cythil

    7 жыл бұрын

    Note that these countries know it a problem and actually try to do something against it. But it a slow machinery where short term gains often win over long term ones. Hopefully, it will not take over a century for them to create a fix for the issue. By the way, China is quickly becoming a dominant power when it comes to zero emission transportation.

  • @xingyuliu3178

    @xingyuliu3178

    7 жыл бұрын

    Moritz L It's the price all developing countries have to pay.

  • @Reckec

    @Reckec

    7 жыл бұрын

    XingYu Liu No, it's China charging ahead regardless of the people it kills. The CCP figures they have plenty to spare. If they can save a few yuan skipping the safety of its workforce and do the job a little quicker, it's a win win for the CCP. So what if the smog they create can be seen in California and is literally off the top end of the pollution ratings scale. And who cares if millions of lives are cut short by poisons in the air. It's the price all developing countries have to pay (at least if they ignore what the rest of the world learned a century ago!!).

  • @xingyuliu3178

    @xingyuliu3178

    7 жыл бұрын

    I don't know where u get the idea that CCP is not doing anything China is by far the biggest investor in clean energy and besides its really hypocritical for developed countries to criticise us since they pollute just as much during their development without any regard for lives.

  • @barbaracunningham964
    @barbaracunningham9645 жыл бұрын

    I remember visiting London as a child and experiencing a smog. It smelt awful and at one stage my father could not read a street name so mum got out of the car and had to go right up to the post to be able to read the sign. The fog was really yellowish and horrible.

  • @kianabencharski3799
    @kianabencharski37997 жыл бұрын

    Am I the only one who actually read the title right?

  • @Mundin...100

    @Mundin...100

    7 жыл бұрын

    Kiana Bencharski yes

  • @Mundin...100

    @Mundin...100

    7 жыл бұрын

    I saw the frog that killed 12,000 people

  • @MichaelSHartman

    @MichaelSHartman

    7 жыл бұрын

    Kiana B no.

  • @bremcurt9514

    @bremcurt9514

    6 жыл бұрын

    Edmundo vasquez Same

  • @hevi0

    @hevi0

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yes

  • @jacobmortimore
    @jacobmortimore7 жыл бұрын

    my grandad died in the the great smog of london :( never got to meet him

  • @yemyem3242

    @yemyem3242

    6 жыл бұрын

    Ronathon 69 my grandfather died of a stroke, never got to see him either...

  • @leahcalabrese2144

    @leahcalabrese2144

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@yemyem3242 same but got to meet him #andioop

  • @viniciuscabral9752
    @viniciuscabral97527 жыл бұрын

    Silent Hill looks great

  • @dylanhultman3922

    @dylanhultman3922

    6 жыл бұрын

    Vinícius Cabral I thought of the tv show, (or was a movie,) The Mist.

  • @DuluthTW
    @DuluthTW7 жыл бұрын

    I didn't know about this before watching this video. Great information. Thanks!

  • @utareangara5529
    @utareangara55294 жыл бұрын

    If you watcht The Crown Season 2, It gets highlighted. its takes up the whole episode

  • @hulagu3068
    @hulagu30687 жыл бұрын

    sounds like beijing today.

  • @ImperatorZor

    @ImperatorZor

    7 жыл бұрын

    Beijing is in a country with more than twenty times the population than England.

  • @uhohhotdog

    @uhohhotdog

    7 жыл бұрын

    ImperatorZor so?

  • @thatjillgirl

    @thatjillgirl

    7 жыл бұрын

    Fun story. Once I studied abroad in China, and one of the places the group stayed in was Beijing. For the first few days we were there, the sky was actually mostly blue and everything seemed fairly normal. Then one day, seemingly overnight, the sky turned brown and obviously smoggy. (When we went to visit a portion of the Great Wall up in the mountains, you could actually see the dome of smog blanketing the city.) We asked one of our Chinese instructors what was going on that the smog was so bad that day. She looked at us in genuine confusion and asked, "Oh is it bad today???" We thought the brown sky was weird, but it turned out that that was normal and we had just gotten lucky to actually see blue sky for a brief time.

  • @KristinAlder

    @KristinAlder

    7 жыл бұрын

    I've been to Beijing a few times and it's crazy how overnight the smog can get so bad. The first time I visited, it was smoggy the first few days and then overnight it got clear. This last time I visited it was just the opposite.

  • @dg-hughes

    @dg-hughes

    7 жыл бұрын

    China is closing a coal plant per day and investing tens of billions in solar power. They are canceled shipments of coal from North Korea. It's bizarro world where the USA increases the use of coal where China is a world leader in green energy!

  • @bengriffin4027
    @bengriffin40276 жыл бұрын

    The significant increase in pollution in London from the Industrial Revolution occurred in the beginning of the 1800s. That is when use of steam and also iron production really accelerated, and thus coal pollution increased significantly.

  • @XYZUNKNOWN
    @XYZUNKNOWN3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for uploading.

  • @Noah-zz8uw
    @Noah-zz8uw3 жыл бұрын

    The title of this video describes High School bathrooms quite well.

  • @Stroivan
    @Stroivan7 жыл бұрын

    Well, as one famous barber once said: 'There's no place like London'...

  • @throwow1014

    @throwow1014

    5 жыл бұрын

    There really isn’t

  • @xiupsilon876
    @xiupsilon8767 жыл бұрын

    This shows how poor lawmakers are at taking action until its too late, when people are dying. The problem with climate change is that it will worsen decades after they step in and the after-effects might endanger humanity as a whole. The other thing that makes them step is our vote. The problem here is that not all countries are democracies.

  • @0mn1vore

    @0mn1vore

    6 жыл бұрын

    Only shows that there's a first time for everything. For centuries, millennia, people had little control of their environment, and remained blind and/or indifferent to the effects they did have. The world seemed much bigger than the areas they were poisoning, and the idea of `running out of world' hadn't occurred to anyone yet. Nuclear weapons were a hell of a wake-up call [only a few years before this happened, btw].

  • @Kathbunny2

    @Kathbunny2

    4 жыл бұрын

    Our votes are no guarantee, it also needs protests, effort from the average people. Protest the biggest pollutants. Protesting goes the furthest, it's gotten us a lot.

  • @ravimala328
    @ravimala3282 жыл бұрын

    You really explain very well

  • @lisalister8002
    @lisalister80024 жыл бұрын

    Very informative... enjoyed watching.

  • @sotypme4813
    @sotypme48135 жыл бұрын

    Wait...trains collided? They relied on seeing each other to avoid collision?

  • @Richard_Jones

    @Richard_Jones

    4 жыл бұрын

    Probably an issue of seeing the signals rather than another train.

  • @avenger8399
    @avenger83994 жыл бұрын

    I can remember really thick fog in the UK even in the 1960`s. We were sent home from work as the buses would be taken off. As a child I remember the fog/smog being a yellow/grey colour when you looked up at the street lights.And it smelt awful.

  • @angeliquebarbey8340
    @angeliquebarbey83403 жыл бұрын

    This is yet another great video presentation from Patreon or however one spells it!

  • @TheMichaeloshea
    @TheMichaeloshea3 жыл бұрын

    Good job!

  • @caioporto9234
    @caioporto92347 жыл бұрын

    I know sulfuric acid sounds better, but SO2 plus H2O equals sulfurous acid, which is much weaker than sulfuric acid (H2SO4). Unless there was some kind of chemical reaction you guys didn't mention.

  • @caioporto9234

    @caioporto9234

    7 жыл бұрын

    That is not the issue here. If it were something like a missing step in the reaction pathway, it would be ok, but in this case the details are important because this is one of the main process in which acid rain is formed and it's a subject in SAT related exams. What I mean is inaccuracy in college level information for the sake of brevity is ok, but this is basic stuff.

  • @LFTRnow

    @LFTRnow

    6 жыл бұрын

    There is of course both sulfurous and sulfuric acid that results from dumping SO2 into the air. SO2 becomes SO3 though oxidization, which may happen though any number of means. One of the more common is reaction with ozone in the atmosphere (ozone is not JUST in the "ozone layer", but found in various altitudes, and increases also with added pollution). The air also contains NOx (NO and NO2 mostly) which is also an oxidizer (and part of pollution). Stories now say acid rain is becoming worse, mostly due to NOx, not SO2 at the moment. Completing the cycle to sulfur*ic* acid, SO3 combines with water to form H2SO4, which is sulfuric acid. NO2 combines with water to form HNO3 or nitric acid. I don't think I'd call the college level information inaccurate, because sulfuric acid IS formed, however, it clearly glosses over the details which require some goggling to find out. I found this helpful: sites.google.com/site/acidrain1project/#SULFURIC

  • @barbaracunningham964

    @barbaracunningham964

    5 жыл бұрын

    The acids were eating into everything and causing a great deal of damage to buildings etc.

  • @bobjackson4720
    @bobjackson47204 жыл бұрын

    When I was a kid in UK in the 1950's smogs were common. People died every year. We used to call them pea soupers. My mother frequently had to wash clothes several times, also the washing line would be coated in soot. You knew it was a bad one when you couldn't see your own outstretched hand (that isn't a joke). You could really taste the smoke in the air. At that time every house had one or more coal fires and Britain was still a major manufacturing centre, and of course every factory had it's chimney.

  • @davideduardos4621
    @davideduardos46215 жыл бұрын

    Hey, mate, have you wondered about creating a video about another important event that took place in London in the 19th century? I'm talking about "The Great Stink of London of 1853". That's such an interesting part of Environmental History. Thanks for the video, you smashed it.

  • @kylenoe2234
    @kylenoe22344 жыл бұрын

    Big business will never care about murdering innocent poor people. They've gotta make stupid amounts of profit. Fts

  • @zeromancer-x
    @zeromancer-x7 жыл бұрын

    Oh, so basically just like modern day Beijing. :P

  • @boterham7144

    @boterham7144

    5 жыл бұрын

    Bazagi Derp yea been there and thats complete bullshite m8

  • @vijayabhaskarj3095

    @vijayabhaskarj3095

    5 жыл бұрын

    Or moder day New Delhi.

  • @ReMx3DIT

    @ReMx3DIT

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@boterham7144 Haha yeah, that's like trusting Russia when they say the won't take Crimea :D

  • @kckdude913

    @kckdude913

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ReMx3DIT Or trusting Brits when they say that Britain colonizing India was a good thing for Indians.

  • @ThisTrainIsLost
    @ThisTrainIsLost3 жыл бұрын

    I'd forgotten about the smog of '52 but, I do recall The Great Stink of '58. (And I don't mean that I remember it as if I was there; it took place in 1858.) I would be very interested in a follow up video to this fine presentation, that compares the two related events. The Stink of 1858 lasted through July and August of that year and simply would've had to have had a deleterious effect on the health of the residents of London.

  • @rin_etoware_2989

    @rin_etoware_2989

    Жыл бұрын

    a stink so bad that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had to get out ten minutes after starting a pleasure cruise, and the half-built Parliament's windows had to be scented up with lime because the river was just next door. or, as one paper put it, "Gentility of speech is at an end-it stinks..."

  • @ThisTrainIsLost

    @ThisTrainIsLost

    Жыл бұрын

    @@rin_etoware_2989 Thanks for the info! And a truth-in-advertising prize for some reporter.

  • @abalrog42
    @abalrog427 жыл бұрын

    I've been waiting for someone to talk about the great smog since Alltime 10's video about the world's worst man-made disasters. Thanks Hank!! :)

  • @jacquelinepaddock7535
    @jacquelinepaddock75354 жыл бұрын

    I was a primary school pupil in London at the time. Mum stopped me going to school after she realised how bad it was getting. She used to stuff rags in any gaps that were letting in the awful stuff.

  • @mreknijn
    @mreknijn7 жыл бұрын

    I thought it said frog. I was confused yet amazed.

  • @Mithrandier
    @Mithrandier7 жыл бұрын

    China was just like, "we will ignore it"......... 3 000 deaths a day later and they havent changed tactics.

  • @crystalball020

    @crystalball020

    7 жыл бұрын

    GreekPanda Lol, China is doing it's best to prevent that, while US is trying to get to that point.

  • @Minecraftian09

    @Minecraftian09

    7 жыл бұрын

    Average Snowflake *cough cough Paris agreement withdrawal cough cough* Sorry, all this smog gives me allergies.

  • @thatjillgirl

    @thatjillgirl

    7 жыл бұрын

    I mean, they are trying these days, but they have cities with enormous populations. It gets difficult. Still, they are currently making a better effort to reduce pollution than the U.S. is.

  • @Somerandomguy524

    @Somerandomguy524

    7 жыл бұрын

    GreekPanda that is because individual lives are worth next to nothing, it is public outrage what organisations are afraid about, when a large enough among of people can no longer say it's not their problem.

  • @icesilverwind

    @icesilverwind

    7 жыл бұрын

    The weird thing about China, is that when it (ie. the government) wants to do something, they get it done FAST. Physically, they could improve the pollution problem. But they won't. Because the benefit isn't worth it to them. To China, the nation comes before the people. Edit: Secondary benefit to human lives is public perception. ie. "Look how environmentally friendly we are. Ignore our past. We are now the leaders in green technology. Yay."

  • @badwilliesmail
    @badwilliesmail5 жыл бұрын

    It happened in the United States as well; in 1948, Donora, Pennsylvania, south east of Pittsburgh. For 5 days or so, around Halloween, a temperature inversion trapped industrial smoke, automobile exhaust and other pollutants in the air. It hung over the river valley and the town like a blanket. It was like night around the clock. Visibility was practically zero. It became quite serious. There was loss of life, especially the sick, the elderly and the very young. The steel mills kept on belching smoke in spite of the growing health crisis. It was said that the furnaces were too costly to shut down and then later restart once the inversion lifted. They finally relented, I believe, in the end and shut down when people started dying!! Look it up. It's a interesting story. Hank, you should produce a video on this, it would fit right in. Just a thought...

  • @gspaulsson
    @gspaulsson7 жыл бұрын

    I was there; I was 5. I remember that all you could see was vague blobby streetlights in a greenish-yellow soup. Fuzzy shadows of people would appear out of nowhere for a moment, then disappear. It was actually quite exciting for a 5-year-old.

  • @SeaMager
    @SeaMager7 жыл бұрын

    oh... I misread fog as frog now I'm disappointed

  • @NeoCawte

    @NeoCawte

    7 жыл бұрын

    MaryElizabeth Nicholes same

  • @rarimadino9671

    @rarimadino9671

    6 жыл бұрын

    MaryElizabeth Nicholes DA FROG THAT KILLED 12,000 PEPERS

  • @radomiami

    @radomiami

    6 жыл бұрын

    #TheGreatFrog

  • @Kambiguous
    @Kambiguous7 жыл бұрын

    Hank that is a nice shirt (unsarcastic comment here just really like the shirt)

  • @MiracleWinchester

    @MiracleWinchester

    6 жыл бұрын

    Gamerkam it really is

  • @tatifur1472

    @tatifur1472

    4 жыл бұрын

    I actually thought of a kimono when I first saw it

  • @SatumainenOlento

    @SatumainenOlento

    4 жыл бұрын

    It is cool! I might seen it in some other video too.

  • @djluka6774
    @djluka67747 жыл бұрын

    That episode of The Crown was insane~

  • @eddypalogrande6090
    @eddypalogrande60906 жыл бұрын

    Love the shirt!

  • @clawthe
    @clawthe7 жыл бұрын

    I thought the title was "The Frog That Killed 12,000 People"

  • @dakotawhisenant1681
    @dakotawhisenant16817 жыл бұрын

    I honestly thought this said the frog that killed 12,000 people

  • @YouNoob573

    @YouNoob573

    7 жыл бұрын

    its pepe

  • @gabrieloceano

    @gabrieloceano

    6 жыл бұрын

    Same here O.o

  • @markbaco9843

    @markbaco9843

    6 жыл бұрын

    It did initially 4,000 then 8,000 in the last 2 days combined they equal 12,000

  • @donkey7921

    @donkey7921

    6 жыл бұрын

    Dakota Whisenant same

  • @Lukas-qk6ll

    @Lukas-qk6ll

    6 жыл бұрын

    Same

  • @NikkiJeanAtterberry
    @NikkiJeanAtterberry7 жыл бұрын

    Love the shirt, Hank!

  • @KronosVengence
    @KronosVengence7 жыл бұрын

    Your shirt is amazing!

  • @myrobotfish
    @myrobotfish7 жыл бұрын

    Coal producers: "It was the flu! THE FLU!"

  • @iderxn
    @iderxn3 жыл бұрын

    Hello Simon, I like the smog in London ;)

  • @fickens5643

    @fickens5643

    3 жыл бұрын

    waht is wrong with you?

  • @SMTransportStuff

    @SMTransportStuff

    3 жыл бұрын

    Didn't ask

  • @Sanjeet101

    @Sanjeet101

    3 жыл бұрын

    lol deron stfu

  • @brendontucker6300
    @brendontucker63006 жыл бұрын

    My new favorite video to make my friends curious

  • @briandalton287
    @briandalton2873 жыл бұрын

    Your killin me scishow.

  • @bryangwk
    @bryangwk7 жыл бұрын

    that is a badass shirt

  • @sophesteranimates
    @sophesteranimates6 жыл бұрын

    i thought it said frog and I got confused when u talked about smog.

  • @collegeman1988
    @collegeman19885 жыл бұрын

    The Beatles’ I Am The Walrus song reference about getting a tan while standing in the English rain is in reference to the smog problem.

  • @Emiloid
    @Emiloid7 жыл бұрын

    Ooh this was in an episode of "The Crown"!

  • @penand_paper6661
    @penand_paper66617 жыл бұрын

    I'm surprised nobody here is talking about China.

  • @MagorFanOf2011
    @MagorFanOf20117 жыл бұрын

    i remember them talking about this in The Crown on netflix

  • @fleeseeksboxconundrum1789
    @fleeseeksboxconundrum17896 жыл бұрын

    Hey Hank, where did you get that awesome shirt?

  • @erhagman
    @erhagman7 жыл бұрын

    Awesome shirt hank

  • @stephenbrand5661
    @stephenbrand56614 жыл бұрын

    When I was a little kid the Iron Curtain fell and National Geographic did some stories about pollution in the Eastern Bloc. There was one in the former Soviet Union by a German photographer named Gerd Ludwig. As a little kid those pictures and stories terrified me and made me eternally grateful to live a country with a strong environmental movement. The Soviets completely destroyed their environment in order to catch up with the West, which they never came close to achieving.

  • @axsilic3800
    @axsilic38007 жыл бұрын

    I got caught ______ in my _______ and I _____

  • @sosa2mars

    @sosa2mars

    7 жыл бұрын

    socially akward Masturbatung, bed, and loved it?

  • @Pile_of_carbon

    @Pile_of_carbon

    7 жыл бұрын

    defiling cheese local grocery store now _love_ sharp Stilton

  • @penand_paper6661

    @penand_paper6661

    7 жыл бұрын

    Destroying Sumerian artifacts Adventure hat and black clothing Am part of ISIS now.

  • @Mrjonnyjonjon123

    @Mrjonnyjonjon123

    7 жыл бұрын

    imaginary girlfriend best friends pants Masturbated to it

  • @theincarnationofboredom207

    @theincarnationofboredom207

    6 жыл бұрын

    looking stupid Comment Am going to delete it

  • @Momo21321
    @Momo213217 жыл бұрын

    its a pretty hard image to imagine:but then again,my mind's always smoggy.

  • @ICESTORM667
    @ICESTORM6677 жыл бұрын

    we live in the valley of Pa. You can tell the air is heavy when you can smell wood 4 miles away from river lots

  • @SMTransportStuff
    @SMTransportStuff3 жыл бұрын

    OHHH DREAM

  • @fickens5643

    @fickens5643

    3 жыл бұрын

    OHHH GEORGEEEEE

  • @iderxn

    @iderxn

    3 жыл бұрын

    OHHHH SAPPPPNAAAPPPP

  • @Sanjeet101

    @Sanjeet101

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bruh pls be serious many people died here

  • @SlothToni

    @SlothToni

    3 жыл бұрын

    OHHHHHH SAPNAPPPP

  • @justgiz
    @justgiz7 жыл бұрын

    I read the title of this video as "The Frog that killed 12,000 people".

  • @ATINKERER
    @ATINKERER3 жыл бұрын

    I remember when in lived in NYC during the 1960s, that by the day after it snowed the white snow would be covered with black stuff. As the days went by a black crust formed on the snow. Another thing was that all year long the windows were covered on the outside with dark gray sand, no matter how often you tried to clean them it came back before you knew it. Coal was used to heat apartment buildings back then. They would put a chute through a basement window and coal from the coal truck was loaded down the basement. When they burned it, the smoke would sometimes start out yellow, but then it always turned to black smoke that filled the sky.

  • @jujubee420
    @jujubee4207 жыл бұрын

    Nice shirt, Hank!

  • @alexandre4953
    @alexandre49537 жыл бұрын

    Correction, SO2 dont forma sulfuric acid when reacts with water, it forms sulfurus acid, H2SO3. SO3 on the other had, forms H2SO4 when mixed with water. When coal is burnind, the sulfur that is present forms both SO2 and SO3, forming both diferent acids when they are mixed with water.

  • @Rudofaux
    @Rudofaux7 жыл бұрын

    "We're moving back to coal. Coal is the future. Believe me." -Trump 2017

  • @SatumainenOlento

    @SatumainenOlento

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hahhhaaqqhhahhhhh 😂😂😂 I never heard this one...I have heard many others, but this is FANTASTIC!!! And perfectly placed under this video!!!

  • @P.smth7
    @P.smth77 жыл бұрын

    Feels great to get the honor of giving you guys the 13.000th upvote

  • @astonish8bp394
    @astonish8bp3947 жыл бұрын

    WE LOVE YOU HANK

  • @wesleybantugan5604
    @wesleybantugan56047 жыл бұрын

    Is walking backwards down a hill really better for you?

  • @pink.car.
    @pink.car.7 жыл бұрын

    Who else is here late because of John's stream? Like if you are!

  • @computer5272

    @computer5272

    7 жыл бұрын

    And here we have a great example of an astonishingly ignorant creature. So ignorant in fact, that it cannot grasp the differences between a planned and timed event, and an archived video which is static in time.

  • @pink.car.

    @pink.car.

    7 жыл бұрын

    What do you mean? I was just asking who wasn't here as early as they usually are because I refused to leave John's stream. And, I would also prefer if you did not call me ignorant, even for a joke.

  • @pink.car.

    @pink.car.

    7 жыл бұрын

    TheCowprint Saaaaaammmmee!

  • @sebastianyu5383
    @sebastianyu53835 жыл бұрын

    This kind of environmental problem is one of many massive problems if you don’t regulate corporations

  • @un852
    @un8526 жыл бұрын

    good grief. i have been watching these little science bits since this morning and it is now 4 in the afternoon. goodbye day.

  • @Jackal
    @Jackal7 жыл бұрын

    and his name was Pepe

  • @JohnCena8351

    @JohnCena8351

    7 жыл бұрын

    Jackal Unleashed Fog not Frog...

  • @Jackal

    @Jackal

    7 жыл бұрын

    i think it originally said frog lol i swear

  • @drow7077

    @drow7077

    7 жыл бұрын

    I must admit it... it really was me...

  • @inSpihr

    @inSpihr

    7 жыл бұрын

    I've got boxes of Pepe!

  • @calebhagen2861

    @calebhagen2861

    7 жыл бұрын

    pepe the fog

  • @rainydaylady6596
    @rainydaylady65967 жыл бұрын

    Too bad our President doesn't believe this kind of information.

  • @andrejacques1769

    @andrejacques1769

    7 жыл бұрын

    Darcy Kahler what do you mean by that?

  • @bananamcstuffins2718

    @bananamcstuffins2718

    7 жыл бұрын

    He's referencing trump's disbelief in climate change. Because it totally relates to the video.

  • @JeffersonTryHard

    @JeffersonTryHard

    7 жыл бұрын

    Banana McStuffins 2 it kind of does. Lol

  • @ocadioan

    @ocadioan

    7 жыл бұрын

    Banana McStuffins 2 A more apt reference would be his repeal of the Clean Water Protections. That is literally allowing coal companies to dump their pollution into water streams.

  • @andrejacques1769

    @andrejacques1769

    7 жыл бұрын

    this has nothing to do with trump so stop trying to making a excuse to bring trump to some other countrys problems.

  • @steconla1181
    @steconla11816 жыл бұрын

    How did this not get millions of views

  • @nturtaneme
    @nturtaneme7 жыл бұрын

    Thank you^^

  • @aaronv3554
    @aaronv35547 жыл бұрын

    I know your not wearing socks (Yeah I'm watching you from your window)

  • @cup_check_official

    @cup_check_official

    7 жыл бұрын

    of course, i am not wearing socks. its 48 C here. i aint wearing anything at all. hows my view from the window?

  • @aaronv3554

    @aaronv3554

    7 жыл бұрын

    Tell Me This I ammmmmm blinded

  • @rozyish

    @rozyish

    7 жыл бұрын

    Aaron Varghese I irrationally looked at my window after I saw your comment.

  • @valentinion6554

    @valentinion6554

    7 жыл бұрын

    I am not joking i am in the bathroom where there are no windows and i am wearing ONLY sock so you can stfu

  • @asgerk4837

    @asgerk4837

    7 жыл бұрын

    Aaron Varghese I am

  • @mychannelhasonly1videojust864
    @mychannelhasonly1videojust8647 жыл бұрын

    still not as deadly as my fart

  • @rowleyj31

    @rowleyj31

    6 жыл бұрын

    I feel bad for your significant other.....and toilet. Poor poor toilet.

  • @CyFiM
    @CyFiM7 жыл бұрын

    We tend to forget just how bad pollution was in the mid-20th Century. Amidst all the talks of whether or not environmental issues are really all that serious, we have actual historical records of times like this, when the air was so bad that it posed an immediate and readily-observable threat to people's lives. I'm sure part of the problem is that we just never hear about this. I certainly didn't learn about deadly air pollution in school.

  • @mrmagnum14
    @mrmagnum146 жыл бұрын

    That shirt is fire!!

  • @dingleberry7756
    @dingleberry77567 жыл бұрын

    NOTIFICATION SQUAD HERE

  • @Maxiadam1

    @Maxiadam1

    7 жыл бұрын

    Yesss

  • @obrkenobi1170
    @obrkenobi11707 жыл бұрын

    "flights were grounded" -1852 Are you talking about airships/balloons or something?

  • @Tuzszo

    @Tuzszo

    7 жыл бұрын

    1952, not 1852.

  • @obrkenobi1170

    @obrkenobi1170

    7 жыл бұрын

    Why does it say 1852 on the screen?

  • @SuperPickle15

    @SuperPickle15

    6 жыл бұрын

    Obr Kenobi because it says 1952... maybe you should get that smog problem checked out... it's messing with your vision

  • @dhtelevision

    @dhtelevision

    6 жыл бұрын

    Obr Kenobi It was probably a typo

  • @robertjacobs4369
    @robertjacobs43697 жыл бұрын

    Hank, that is a bold shirt brother!!!

  • @christinachen4778
    @christinachen47786 жыл бұрын

    Legit got an ad with Hank in it before the vid.

  • @niceguy1052
    @niceguy10527 жыл бұрын

    I guess someone had too much Taco Bell

  • @buckybone89
    @buckybone897 жыл бұрын

    This is what happens when we don't have a functioning EPA...this is what the Republicans want to bring back.

  • @tiffycoyote6792

    @tiffycoyote6792

    6 жыл бұрын

    To be fair, we do not have a functional EPA now.

  • @Grizabeebles

    @Grizabeebles

    6 жыл бұрын

    +Jonathan Williams -- either way, its proof industry will not willingly regulate itself.

  • @robertbennett2796

    @robertbennett2796

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thats not true, EPA been going down hill for years stop playing the blame game

  • @lordgarion514

    @lordgarion514

    5 жыл бұрын

    The republicans are the ones gutting the environmental laws to allow more pollution.

  • @billyosullivan4514

    @billyosullivan4514

    5 жыл бұрын

    How will this happen again who burns coal?

  • @NeilVickers
    @NeilVickers7 жыл бұрын

    My mum told stories of the smogs; apparently you could get lost crossing the road. You'd get to the center of the road and you wouldn't be able to see either of the kerbs.

  • @ValentiaTheLunatic

    @ValentiaTheLunatic

    3 жыл бұрын

    Do you maybe have more stories of that time? I'm a med student preparing a presentation on this

  • @catherinebirch2399
    @catherinebirch23997 жыл бұрын

    I was born during that time, & my mother often told me about how when she was taken to hospital in labour, someone had to walk in front of the ambulance with a flaming torch so that they could see where they were going.

  • @ValentiaTheLunatic

    @ValentiaTheLunatic

    3 жыл бұрын

    how did that affect your health? I'm a med student preparing a presentation on this, can you maybe explain a bit about how it was and what consequences it had? It'd be amazing to get information from someone who's experienced it

  • @catherinebirch2399

    @catherinebirch2399

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ValentiaTheLunatic I don't think it affected my health because in those days mothers were kept in hospital for at least a week to 10 days after giving birth. By the time we got out of the hospital the smog had cleared up.

  • @ValentiaTheLunatic

    @ValentiaTheLunatic

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@catherinebirch2399 but didn't similar incidents happen later? Or was it just that one time? I'm reading articles and a lot of them mention respiratory problems of the children born in that time which are related to the smog

  • @elchapojunior3091
    @elchapojunior30917 жыл бұрын

    Republicans would gladly let this happen for an extra buck

  • @dots5641

    @dots5641

    7 жыл бұрын

    ElChapo Junior I don't see why republican? This isn't political at all!

  • @SourceOfTheRightArm

    @SourceOfTheRightArm

    7 жыл бұрын

    ElChapo Junior maybe 2 bucks

  • @bubbafinch07

    @bubbafinch07

    7 жыл бұрын

    ElChapo Junior Democrats would rather focus on the weather while letting Islamic Terrorists suckle on their tit while simultaneously taking their citizens freedom of speech.

  • @elchapojunior3091

    @elchapojunior3091

    7 жыл бұрын

    Mandrake Fernflower Establishment democrats might not be perfect, but it's the republicans that vote to let coal companies pollute water

  • @aguynamedguy9385

    @aguynamedguy9385

    7 жыл бұрын

    Why did you have to bring politics into this?

  • @klywrx
    @klywrx7 жыл бұрын

    "turning air into poison is not a great idea" well put.

  • @samuelr5414
    @samuelr54147 жыл бұрын

    🎶A smoggy day, in London town🎶

  • @OmarsHafsa
    @OmarsHafsa7 жыл бұрын

    Any time I see or hear something about Sulfuric Acid, I think of the movie Untraceable where Colin Hanks ends up in that tank of battery acid.