[jawarner]

You ever toss and turn at night because it’s just too hot to sleep? Someone moving from the North to California would likely experience that. I know I did when I moved to Texas and my air conditioning unit broke down.

The authors say there is adaptation to the local climate so someone living near the equator might still get good sleep. The data is based on weather, and it checks out; it’s hard to sleep on a hot summer night.

[Qem]

I spent the first half of my life living 7 degrees south of the equator, in a city where temperatures in the hot season routinely go near 40o Celsius. I can tell first hand, it wrecks your sleep. Sleeping in a mattress is unbearable, even under low humidity and with a fan, your underside gets too hot, and the entire night is spent flipping in the bed. The only effective adaptation available to poor people, without AC, was to sleep in hammocks as a default. It avoids getting your underside too hot.

[arisAlexis]

It'd hard to sleep for you not Africans. 1C difference can't make such a difference since we can adapt. I am all for climate change but the title of the study sounds meh.

[xwdv]

So the takeaway is just adapt.