Even when it’s just a little warmer than usual, higher night temperatures mess with our slumber. A new worldwide study adds up these losses
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.
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.
What was more remarkable were the results. People slept most when outside temperatures were below 50°F . Above that threshold, their chances of sleeping less than seven hours went way up. Above 77°F , the losses accelerated. When outdoor nighttime temperatures topped 86°F , people lost an average of about 15 minutes a night.
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