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Climate change is eroding a precious resource: sleep
National Geographic via MSN ^ | May 25, 2022 | By Alejandra Borunda

Posted on 05/25/2022 7:57:28 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Now a new study links sleep loss—and by extension, all the problems that come with it—with climate change.”

GFY


21 posted on 05/25/2022 8:26:36 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Somebody needs to invent a device that will cool the interior of a house.


22 posted on 05/25/2022 8:31:03 AM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I am old enough to remember when no one had air conditioning. We slept with the window open and hoped for a breeze. If not, we put a fan in the window. That is people who lived in an area with electricity did.

Schools and chrches were really sweat boxes.

But we survived!!

Now everyone has air conditioning.

Obviously the group that concocted this “study” is too dumb to turn the thermostat down.


23 posted on 05/25/2022 8:48:07 AM PDT by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so bad that the federal government can not make worse.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Only the idiots that worry about Global Warming have trouble sleeping which is good


24 posted on 05/25/2022 9:12:56 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: old curmudgeon

Schools without A/C were brutal on hot and humid days.

In this area they were often made of brick which effectively turned them into wood stoves!


25 posted on 05/25/2022 9:16:56 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I had a bad case of hemorrhoids. Doc told me it was due to climate change AND glowbull warming.


26 posted on 05/25/2022 9:19:16 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: cgbg

And brick homes and apartments held heat all night.

Many public buildings built within the past 20 years have no windows that can be opened. When Biden’s all electric economy collapses {I am tempted to say “blows a fuse”), the idiots will get a lesson in how stupid they are.


27 posted on 05/25/2022 9:24:52 AM PDT by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so bad that the federal government can not make worse.)
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To: old curmudgeon

Windows that won’t open has not been a problem in our area’s largest city.

The locals just break them if it gets too hot!


28 posted on 05/25/2022 9:28:01 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Their low flow toilets make bathroom visits hard. That’s their idea of a solution. Can’t wait to see more.


29 posted on 05/25/2022 9:48:43 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So the house my father grew up in had a “sleeping porch” screened in on the second story in anticipation of today’s weather? Right.


30 posted on 05/25/2022 9:50:05 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference of the Devil...-Churchill)
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To: old curmudgeon

I never had AC in my home until I was in my forties.

It’s nice when it gets super hot and humid here, but I generally don’t like it and have never been sure it’s really healthy.

I prefer fans. If my husband weren’t so sensitive to heat, I’d probably only use the AC now and then.

(Another thing that doesn’t seem healthy about a lot of modern apartment buildings is the lack of cross-ventilation. I guess they figure you don’t need it with the temperature controlled artificially.)


31 posted on 05/25/2022 10:09:05 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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Somebody needs to invent a device that will cool the interior of a house.

LOL!

32 posted on 05/25/2022 10:25:02 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Bob434

And think about the sleeplessness of the people whose jobs are in jeopardy in this “fine” economy — little or no money coming in after a job loss, with massive inflation, shortages and high gas prices for the commute to future job interviews. It’s a wonder people aren’t dropping dead from insomnia.


33 posted on 05/25/2022 10:27:11 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: Blennos

Just like leftist. They are so much smarter than the rest of us.


34 posted on 05/25/2022 10:48:33 AM PDT by Leep (Don't say God.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

One should be able to sleep in later in winter months because of the later hour at which it becomes daylight. Guess that’s climate change, but who is stupid enough to think they can change this?


35 posted on 05/25/2022 10:49:08 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: Alas Babylon!

One should be able to sleep in later in winter months because of the later hour at which it becomes daylight. Guess that’s climate change, but who is stupid enough to think they can change this?


36 posted on 05/25/2022 10:49:48 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Climate Change - Is there anything it can’t do?


37 posted on 05/25/2022 10:55:09 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Jamestown1630

I agree. You are correct on all counts.

In my case it is the wife who insisted on, and got so aggravated with me, that she bought and paid for a complete system and all of the installation costs.

We built the house on a hill..50% of the outside walls are big heavy sliding glass doors. My idea was to have a lot of ventilation at night, to listen to the barred owls talking and the July flies and katydids.

Oh well....the Queen of the Hill....


38 posted on 05/25/2022 10:57:49 AM PDT by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so bad that the federal government can not make worse.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Exactly- lots to be stressed about, but worrying about natural cyclical climate change isn’t one of them-


39 posted on 05/25/2022 11:03:30 AM PDT by Bob434 (.)
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To: Bob434

I think we are warming a bit, but I certainly don’t lose sleep over that aspect of life.


40 posted on 05/25/2022 11:39:20 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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