Scientists have observed before that people sleep poorly in hot laboratory environments or sweltering houses, but a new study tracked a large number of sleepers across the United States. Heat waves measurably disrupt sleep, researchers at MIT found. They calculated that every nocturnal temperature increase of 1 degree Celsius produced an additional three nights of restless sleep per 100 people per month. Scaled across the United States, the authors wrote that a 1 degree bump translates to about 110 million extra nights of insufficient sleep each year.
| |  | | Democracy Dies in Darkness | | | | | | Environment Alert | Fri., May. 26, 2017 2:01 p.m. | | | | | | Climate change could keep Americans awake at night. Literally. | Scientists have observed before that people sleep poorly in hot laboratory environments or sweltering houses, but a new study tracked a large number of sleepers across the United States. Heat waves measurably disrupt sleep, researchers at MIT found. They calculated that every nocturnal temperature increase of 1 degree Celsius produced an additional three nights of restless sleep per 100 people per month. Scaled across the United States, the authors wrote that a 1 degree bump translates to about 110 million extra nights of insufficient sleep each year. | | Read more » | | | |
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