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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

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; sleep; socialism
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1 posted on 05/25/2022 7:57:28 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nonsense.


2 posted on 05/25/2022 7:59:49 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Gorebal Warning causes Joe Biden.


3 posted on 05/25/2022 8:00:15 AM PDT by Paladin2
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Another stupid study. So if the climate becomes "perfect" like they're proposing...we'll all sleep better.

And that would be in the year 2050? or 2100? of 2150?

Sooner or later, the earth will b at the temperature they want...what then. I'll be 342.

4 posted on 05/25/2022 8:00:31 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yeah, because sleeping thru the night in below zero weather is so comfortable...

/s


5 posted on 05/25/2022 8:01:12 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I feel a little slow and groggy today. Must be climate change.

I’m also feeling a little older. I bet Climate Change is causing aging too.

Diabetes has exploded. Clearly the result of climate change.

I bet climate change is even behind covid-19 and monkeypox. We didn’t have pandemics like this prior to climate change.


6 posted on 05/25/2022 8:01:15 AM PDT by DannyTN
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7 posted on 05/25/2022 8:02:22 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Insomnia killed the dinosaurs.


8 posted on 05/25/2022 8:02:46 AM PDT by Orosius
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Some links for folks who may not have seen them yet:

https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions/

https://nypost.com/2020/01/10/the-telling-tale-of-glacier-national-parks-gone-by-2020-signs/

The mass media “climate change” propagandists are like the perps in “Cops”.

When they get caught with drugs and a sawed-off shotgun in their pockets they say “I don’t know nuthin about it—a friend must have put them in there....”


9 posted on 05/25/2022 8:05:49 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

The sky is falling The sky is falling ... and the pieces are hitting people trying to sleep keeping them awake.


10 posted on 05/25/2022 8:07:14 AM PDT by antidemoncrat ( adn)
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I lost my last three games of internet chess. I’m pretty sure Climate Change is to blame. I think I’ll apply for a federal grant to study the matter.


11 posted on 05/25/2022 8:08:17 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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Next it will be coming after our precious bodily fluids...


12 posted on 05/25/2022 8:09:04 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Boy, those folks working the 3rd shift really have problems now. . . . /sarc


13 posted on 05/25/2022 8:12:15 AM PDT by RatRipper (The Biden Adm is leading an attack against US citizens . . . pure evil.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Climate Change. The mighty, mystical, magical hoax. It does everything!


14 posted on 05/25/2022 8:13:22 AM PDT by Blennos ( )
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They’re pushing the Climate Change BS from every angle and all too many fools and idiots are falling for it.


15 posted on 05/25/2022 8:14:18 AM PDT by laplata (")
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Here, lemme write the real facts of the issue out

Everyone knows the horrible feeling: lying awake at night worried about impending climate change regulations, taxes, fines, carbon credits etc, all sucking your life savings away, as you are tossing and turning, and then waking up a shell of your former self due to sleep deprivation

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 regulations, fines, taxes and mandates. The constant stress of being told that you Will pay more and more money to “fix” a nonexistent problem has caused billions of people to lose sleep, in reality g health problems, causing anxiety and other stress related health issue....


16 posted on 05/25/2022 8:16:48 AM PDT by Bob434 (.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Load of greenie weenie crap.


17 posted on 05/25/2022 8:17:28 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (My body, my choice....but not when it comes down to unconstitutional "vaccine" mandates.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Maybe we need Common Sense Licensing, Regulation, Training and Background Checks for “Commercial Speech” to prevent Propaganda like this from infecting the minds of the unsuspecting public


18 posted on 05/25/2022 8:21:28 AM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Climate change” as promoted by the various scaremongers, is a pernicious lie, and based on total BS.

Climate change does indeed exist, but its cause cannot possibly, in any remotely plausible manner, be attributed to mankind and mankind alone. The entire planet is a very complex ecosystem, and the presence or absence of a couple thousand parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere , cannot, does not, affect that ecosystem in in any significant manner.

Correlation is not causation, and in fact, the correlation is so diffused and capricious, as to preclude any reliable causation.


19 posted on 05/25/2022 8:21:58 AM PDT by alloysteel (There are folks running the government who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches - Will Rogers)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Being “grumpy” from a lack of sleep can be fixed: take a nap.


20 posted on 05/25/2022 8:26:27 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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