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An Effect of Climate Change You Could Really Lose Sleep Over


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People sleep in a park during hot weather in Dhaka, Bangladesh. CreditAbir Abdullah/European Pressphoto Agency

Global warming caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases is having clear effects in the physical world: more heat waves, heavier rainstorms and higher sea levels, to cite a few.

In recent years, though, social scientists have been wrestling with a murkier question: What will climate change mean for human welfare?

Forecasts in this realm are tricky, necessarily based on a long chain of assumptions. Scientific papers have predicted effects as varied as a greater spread of tropical diseases, fewer deaths from cold weather and more from hot weather, and even bumpier rides on airplanes.

Now comes another entry in this literature: a prediction that in a hotter world, people will get less sleep.

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