Scare story - climate change will affect unborn babies

From the Department of Desperate Scare Stories (otherwise known as that organ of impartiality, The Age). Apparently, newborn babies who are exposed to air pollution in the womb have to breathe faster to get more oxygen into their lungs, according to research confirming environmental fumes can damage a child's lungs before birth. Let me make it quite clear that I am all in favour of cutting pollution (by which I mean real pollution such as particulates and toxins, as opposed to non-pollution, such as CO2) from our towns and cities to improve quality of life and health, but guess what:

"Climate change is going to increase humidity and make the situation worse so we need to get smart about it now."

Who'd have thunk it?

Read it here.