In a paper published online Friday by the journal Science Advances, Nick Obradovich and his team predicted more restless nights, especially in the summer, as global temperatures rise. They found that the poor, who are less likely to have air-conditioning, as well as the elderly, who have more difficulty regulating their body temperature, would be hit hard.
Dr. Obradovich found the correlation between higher temperatures and disturbed sleep through analyzing the survey done by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on sleep patterns in previous months.
He acknowledged that a limitation to the study is that the survey was subject to the vagaries of memory. Another big weakness in the study, perhaps, is that it is impossible to know what human society will look like in a century’s time; how many people will be without air-conditioning in that world?
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Source: The New York Times, 26 May 2017