Posted on 05/25/2022 7:57:28 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Everyone knows the horrible feeling: A stuffy night, just a little too warm, leads to restless sleep, and then next morning, you feel like a slow, groggy shell of yourself.
That feeling isn’t just unpleasant. Years of research show that sleep deprivation can ramp up heart disease risk, intensify mood disorders, slow one’s ability to learn, and much more—problems with big personal, societal, and economic costs.
Now a new study links sleep loss—and by extension, all the problems that come with it—with climate change. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen found that ever-warmer nighttime temperatures, nudged higher by climate change, push bedtimes later and wake times earlier, costing us precious nighttime rest.
Sleepers tracked in the study, published last week in the journal One Earth, lost rest even in places where temperatures weren’t blazingly high, and had trouble adapting to even mildly challenging sleep temperatures. And sleep costs, the researchers warn, will rise as temperatures do, potentially costing sleepers—that is, all of us—an extra 13 to 15 days of poor sleep each year by the end of the century.
It’s a very clear example of how climate change is playing out in people’s everyday lives, experts say—not just in catastrophic ways like more droughts and flooding, but in small costs that add up. Sleep loss from climate change “is already happening, right now, not in the future but today,” says Kelton Minor, the lead author of the study and a researcher at the University of Copenhagen.
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“Now a new study links sleep loss—and by extension, all the problems that come with it—with climate change.”
GFY
Somebody needs to invent a device that will cool the interior of a house.
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.
Only the idiots that worry about Global Warming have trouble sleeping which is good
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!
I had a bad case of hemorrhoids. Doc told me it was due to climate change AND glowbull warming.
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.
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!
Their low flow toilets make bathroom visits hard. That’s their idea of a solution. Can’t wait to see more.
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.
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.)
LOL!
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.
Just like leftist. They are so much smarter than the rest of us.
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?
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?
Climate Change - Is there anything it can’t do?
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....
Exactly- lots to be stressed about, but worrying about natural cyclical climate change isn’t one of them-
I think we are warming a bit, but I certainly don’t lose sleep over that aspect of life.
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