{"id":371858,"date":"2025-03-25T09:58:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T08:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=371858"},"modified":"2025-03-25T09:58:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T08:58:52","slug":"climate-change-is-ruining-your-nap-the-stupidest-study-of-the-year-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=371858","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change Is Ruining Your Nap: The Stupidest Study of the Year (So Far)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Charles Rotter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somewhere, probably in a temperature-controlled office lit by taxpayer-funded fluorescent lights, a gang of climate hysterics decided it was time to sound the next false alarm:\u00a0global warming is coming for your dreams<\/em>. That\u2019s right. If the planet warms by a couple degrees, you won\u2019t just sweat a little more\u2014you\u2019ll sleep less. And if you sleep less, according to these clowns, you might die. Cue the dramatic music and the UN PowerPoint.<\/p>\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-57781-y<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Abstract<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The impact of rising ambient temperatures on sleep and its phases under climate change is becoming increasingly concerning but remains underexplored. Sleep, consisting of non-rapid eye movement and rapid eye movement phases, is crucial for health, and insufficient sleep in either phase could have significant implications. Based on sleep monitoring data of 23 million days from 214,445 participants across mainland China, we investigated how daily average temperature affected sleep. For each 10\u2009\u00b0C increase in ambient temperature, the odds of sleep insufficiency increased by 20.1%, while total sleep duration decreased by 9.67\u2009minutes, with deep sleep declining the most (by 2.82%). Projections under the unrestricted (SSP5-8.5) greenhouse gas emission scenario suggest that by the end of the century, sleep insufficiency could rise by 10.50%, with an annual loss of 33.28\u2009hours of sleep per person. These findings highlight the potential of climate warming to exacerbate sleep deprivation and degrade sleep quality, especially for the elderly, women, individuals with obesity, and regions of South, Centre and East.

https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-57781-y<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This deeply unserious study out of China\u2014blessed, of course, by Nature Communications<\/em> (a publication that has long since traded rigorous science for progressive catechism)\u2014makes the mind-numbing claim that rising temperatures are causing people to lose sleep. The culprit? Not noisy neighbors, too much screen time, or China\u2019s brutal urban density. Nope. It\u2019s \u201cclimate change,\u201d the all-purpose demon invoked every time someone stubs a toe or misplaces their AirPods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study boasts about analyzing 23 million sleep records from over 214,000 people in China using Huawei smart devices. Because when it comes to objective medical data, nothing says \u201ctrustworthy\u201d like consumer gadgets from a surveillance state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The researchers conclude\u2014with a straight face\u2014that a 10\u00b0C increase in average temperature leads to a 20.1% increase in sleep insufficiency and a devastating (hold onto your pillow) loss of 9.67 minutes<\/em> of sleep per night. Deep sleep is reduced by 3.58 minutes. Oh, the humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re laughing, you\u2019re not alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019d think a minor drop in deep sleep could be chalked up to a new mattress or your neighbor\u2019s karaoke addiction. But no. These authors go full apocalyptic, projecting that under the IPCC\u2019s most extreme emissions scenario (the infamous SSP5-8.5, aka the Mad Max fantasy lane of climate predictions), people could lose\u2014wait for it\u201433.28 hours of sleep per year<\/strong> by 2099.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s right. In 75 years, if we don\u2019t abandon airplanes and steak, Chinese adults might lose 30 hours of snoozing. That\u2019s about two bad weekends of sleep. And this, apparently, is an argument for global emissions restrictions, carbon taxes, and presumably a government-subsidized pillow redistribution program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But let\u2019s not gloss over the real comedy here. The whole thing is based on correlation<\/em>. The authors themselves acknowledge they didn\u2019t measure indoor temperature, air conditioning usage, or even basic confounders like income or occupation. Their sleep data? Sourced from voluntary Huawei smartwatch users<\/em> who had to opt in. You know, the exact kind of scientific randomness you\u2019d expect from a TikTok challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the projections? Modeled using Shared Socioeconomic Pathways<\/em>\u2014that is, computer-generated crystal ball gazing that makes astrology look positively rigorous. Remember SSP5-8.5? The \u201cunrestricted emissions\u201d scenario even the IPCC admits is wildly implausible? These authors not only used it\u2014they based their conclusions on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The punchline is in their own words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cOur findings highlight the importance of mitigating greenhouse gas (GHG) emission and implementing tailored adaptive measures for vulnerable regions and subgroups to alleviate the sleep deprivation and degraded sleep quality associated with climate warming.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Translation: Let\u2019s throw trillions of dollars at net-zero policies because your smartwatch said you tossed and turned last night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s the truth: this isn\u2019t science. It\u2019s ideological performance art dressed up in spreadsheets. The climate priesthood isn\u2019t content with claiming climate change will flood cities and kill polar bears\u2014they now insist it\u2019s responsible for insomnia, bad moods, and your toddler\u2019s tantrum. If a leaf falls off a tree, it\u2019s because you didn\u2019t buy carbon credits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s something deeply grotesque about using speculative future sleep loss to push present-day climate policies that will definitely<\/em> destroy jobs, raise energy costs, and wreck the economies of the very people these \u201cresearchers\u201d pretend to protect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enough. If your sleep is bad, try turning off your phone and using blackout curtains. But don\u2019t let the climate cult tuck you in with fear-porn masquerading as science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only thing truly losing sleep should be this junk paper\u2019s credibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Somewhere, probably in a temperature-controlled office lit by taxpayer-funded fluorescent lights, a gang of climate hysterics decided it was time to sound the next false alarm:\u00a0global warming is coming for your dreams. That\u2019s right. If the planet warms by a couple degrees, you won\u2019t just sweat a little more\u2014you\u2019ll sleep less. And if you sleep less, according to these clowns, you might die. 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