Now comes another entry in this literature: a prediction that in a hotter world, people will get less sleep. Sure enough, he found a correlation between higher temperatures in particular cities and disturbed sleep as reported by their residents. Dr. Obradovich acknowledged that a survey about sleep over the previous month was subject to the vagaries of memory. More definitive research would involve putting lots of people in a sleep laboratory and manipulating the temperature to see what happened. “But this would be way down on my list of things to worry about with climate change, even though I’m a sleep researcher.” NYT

Source: The Hindu May 27, 2017 18:35 UTC