Global warming may be interfering with your sleep

Some people don't believe the earth is going through a phase of global warming, others are losing sleep over it - literally! New research says that the sleep of millions of humans may be affected by rising average temperatures on the planet, especially at night.

The story behind this unusual study began in October 2015, when a strong heat wave hit the city of San Diego in the United States. Nick Obradovich was a doctoral student in political science at the University of California and could not sleep at night because of the high temperatures. Several colleagues also showed signs of tiredness and moodiness, and he decided to investigate whether global warming could be blamed for this sleep deprivation.

Obradovich eventually joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) team and analyzes 765, 000 Americans about their nights sleep. In the vast questionnaire, the researcher and his team asked if people had felt they had not had enough rest in the last 30 days.

With these answers, the MIT team crossed the data with weather information to know the temperature variations suffered by respondents. It was found that the increase of 1 degree Celsius resulted in at least 3 sleepless nights in the month analyzed.

In summer, these incidences are even greater, mainly affecting people over 65 or those earning less than $ 50, 000 a year - the oldest for natural body changes and the "poorer" for not having air conditioners. -conditioned.

Based on these findings and NASA's predictions for global warming, MIT researchers have come to the conclusion that every 30 days we may have 6 sleepless nights around 2050 and an alarming 14 nights of bad sleep in 2099. And As a good night's rest is paramount for human health, we can already think of the impact that global warming will have on this as well.

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