How to pronounce “smog” in English

40s early 50s government responded they set out likesmog patrol in cars and there they are lined up like a highway patrolengineers started studying autos finally and that was really the heart of the problem they found out people responded

That's both light pollution and air pollution.Because smog and other gases in the atmosphere affect the way that we can see those twinkling star lights.So this is modern connection to space.

Steampunk stories take place during the Victorian era, when the Industrial Revolution has been humming, some of the earliest factories are belching smoke,London is full of smog and Sherlock Holmesian mysteries.Railroads are cutting across the American West for the first time.

But it's really just water flowing out of the jungle into the sea.China is just brown smog in the northeast part.

Well, within a couple of years, I was like, wait a second, Iowa is not so white.It's smog in the air.

Cudahy, Paramount, Gardena, Commerce, Bell Gardens, and Bell-- places that were cattle ranches and farmland before they morphed into lower-middle classtowns submerged in smog and dust, dominated by raw industry-- meat packing, smelt, metal, rubber, food processing.The Florence avenue exit takes you off the 710 almost directly to The Bike.

don't have a idea in your mind you know of what it was like and why someonewould write about smog really at all so I thought I just start by giving you a brief overview of what it was like andwhat the response to smog was like with this little set of historical images

would write about smog really at all so I thought I just start by giving you a brief overview of what it was like andwhat the response to smog was like with this little set of historical imageshere this is how it was there's the Superman building in the middle there in

here are some protesters and gas masks here's one of the first green groups inthe world stamp out smog in Pasadenapeople petitioned their government for you know action and there was even some

people petitioned their government for you know action and there was even somehumor involved here's smog in a can which used to be able to buy at LA International Airport in the gift storebut today we know that smog remains a health problem this is a pair of lungs

smart within a few years pretty much wiped out all of that and as farmlandgot taken away because smog was very acidic essentially to tip crops fruits you name it anything growingsubdivisions flowered in the great Inland Empire smog also killed what some of your parents probably did they were

through it people came up with building three four five mile high towers andbringing the smog through a smog sewer that that pulled it in and then sucked it out and released it over the you knowinto the atmosphere well above you know where people breathe I mean people wanted to use World War two bombers to

and we do have a willingness to look at our own actions and I think to some degree there was a hard lessons learnedfrom the smog fight except for one problem that love of technology to be that panacea is still there you go onthe internet and they're still talking about using planes to throw sulfates up into the air to create like the volcanic

ok the the air absolutely where are you this where a city is located has a greatinfluence on the smog levels or whatever is in the air because you havea naturally occurring ocean breeze part of the research when you go back to

by the six days they realize oh my god we've created smog belts you've heard of the Rust Belt and other belts theycreated a smog belt and it was you know wasn't some golden hue it was this brown ugly toxic looking thing and it wouldactually went over freeways because cars were driving very east to west when you get inland it out inland and

higher rates of illness and lethargy and glue than the richer communities andloves about LA and smog at first was a nuisance and then to go back to an earlier question it got so bad there was

Well, within a couple of years, I was like, wait a second, Iowa is not so white.And the reality is that racism is smog in the air.

And I think it'll affect everything else out there.And LA has had horrible experiences with smog, and has worked really hard to shift that.And it didn't make sense to me either, because I said, this is California.

And the treadmill is crazy.And maybe it's fog or smog.

"Harrison Eli. Yeah, I guess I'd like a ride." It turned out that poor Clarence actually rode the bus to work when Sam didn't pick him up.An angel on one of those smog belching city buses.Can you imagine? I swear I'd walk first.

did people so what was response first of all scientists started studying smog here's someone volunteering to beexposed in a outfit here's measuring smog at LA City Halland you know maybe the smokestacks were a little outrageous and needed some curbing that's probably back in the late

humor involved here's smog in a can which used to be able to buy at LA International Airport in the gift storebut today we know that smog remains a health problem this is a pair of lungsfrom someone who died in their early 20s that never smoked in Los Angeles

sorry about the quiz next time we'll give you advance warning butone of the great ironies of the smog fight was that it took us about two generations from the time we identifiedthe source of the problem cars to the time we really saw significant headway

got taken away because smog was very acidic essentially to tip crops fruits you name it anything growingsubdivisions flowered in the great Inland Empire smog also killed what some of your parents probably did they wereout here in the 50s in the 40s which is everybody had a place to burn their own trash and you know on a Friday night you

so I was with you a quick little bit about it plutocrats have been scratching theirheads about whether it potentially blockbuster smog remedy out existed outside their ever scrutinized wall might there be an answer thatimaginative engineers and government consultants that overlooked because it was hidden in plain sight to squeeze out they answer they gambled on an untried

higher rates of illness and lethargy and glue than the richer communities andsaying that today you know when smog hit in 1943 in LA was booming during the

I had to slip that in in case you forgot I was Catholic.Every one of us contributing carbon emissions to the smog.

well thank you good to be here and thanks for your interest in smog in ourbook probably a lot of you didn't experience as much smog as I did growing up here in Southern California so youdon't have a idea in your mind you know of what it was like and why someone

here's a pedestrian it's a little grainy reacting to the small it's kind ofaccurate makes your eyes water sugar beets dying smog affected plants as itdid people so what was response first of all scientists started studying smog here's someone volunteering to be

concepts to bore tunnels through the San Gabriel Mountains send up thousand helicopters and lettheir whirring blades puncture the inversion layer to let the smog ventthrough it people came up with building three four five mile high towers and

spray salt water at the problem they some crackpots came up with the idea there was oh fissures shootingmethane into the air that was creating the smog it wasn't man's you know machinery you know was nature playing alittle joke on us it didn't want us to populate Southern California

have its way nobody would be changing really much of anything we would just be patenting you know the trustee carbondioxide reduction you know cure so to me the lesson smog is it's all about whatwe do and a lot to a great extent we we do deserve the air that we breathe because it's up to us not a patent

talk a little about that it's you think these numbers are correct or um it depends on what pollutant they'reactually saying is--okay it back in the height of the smog dilemma in the 60s when I was just alittle kid he was much older home sees ok know if this mob it would two out of three days of the year we would be

respiratory problems they're very exposed so what you may be seeing is themost obvious area of improvement in the overall smog levels where it shows green but if you look alittle close more closely in ozone and particulate matter particulates come from diesel fuel and they're very small

And man, the smell I remember was smog.It was very, very smoggy.Look, I remember when I moved out of there, I had to go and stand behind cars and inhale just to feel home.

any reasons for yourself or your loved ones not to go outside because it's still not a great a great idea healthyor not to go outside when it's smoggy anybody else well I'll just add add word I haveput on your the question you ask is a good one because

JORGE R. GUITERREZ: So I grew up in Mexico City till I was nine.And man, the smell I remember was smog.It was very, very smoggy.

We had inspirational speakers once in a while.Yeah? You think it's just the smog?

welcome everybody I'm Julie wiskerton from the author's team in santa monica and today we are welcoming chip jacobsand william kelly who were going to be speaking about their book smog town the lung burning history of pollution in losangeles a little bit of information about the authors chip previously wrote a book

Weekly on air pollution so please join me in welcoming chip and billwell thank you good to be here and thanks for your interest in smog in ourbook probably a lot of you didn't experience as much smog as I did growing up here in Southern California so you

accurate makes your eyes water sugar beets dying smog affected plants as itdid people so what was response first of all scientists started studying smog here's someone volunteering to beexposed in a outfit here's measuring smog at LA City Hall

consensus the car was the primary cause of hydrocarbons nitrogen oxides andthings that went into the atmosphere and baked under sunlight to create smog people didn't want to accept it andthere was a backlash not unlike what we're seeing with bailouts and other things going on back in DC and the head

this layer of cool air and the mountains here it's like a cauldron keeping things very stagnant andby the six days they realize oh my god we've created smog belts you've heard of the Rust Belt and other belts theycreated a smog belt and it was you know wasn't some golden hue it was this brown ugly toxic looking thing and it would

guess where the suburbs were out on these east-west inland in Turia freewaysand by the time science go you know figured out we're actually perpetuating the smog because we don't have windcirculation but we have a lot of cars who's too late and nobody's going to take pomona and move it to Santa Monica

And that can be anything from these mental health and physical health benefits we just discussed, from giving us shading and coolingin times of extreme heat, providing air filtration when we get that wildfire smog, providing these sponges that literally soak up our excess stormwater,and if it happens, these sewer overflows that can happen in times of extreme participation.

And we're actually pretty close.So as life is imitating art-- artificial intelligence, toxic smog, video calls-- what lessons do you think of that world will be informed, like inform us,on how to not repeat mistakes?

And literally, if Elon succeeds, no more smog, energy independence from dictators who won big swaths of fossil fuels, global warming,

The problem is that right at the late 1960's three things happened. The problem smog became

very, very apparent in America and people in America started complaining about smog and, "We need to do something about smog especially in California."