Climate change is even getting in the way of a decent night’s sleep. Hotter nighttime temperatures are disrupting sleep patterns, a new study finds, with more sleep lost in the summer and among elderly and lower-income Americans.

It’s the largest real-world study yet to link lack of sleep and unusually warm nighttime temperatures, and the first to look at what that means in the future if global warming remains unchecked.

“In recent years, we found that unusually warm nights are associated with increased reports of nights of insufficient sleep,” said study lead author Nick Obradovich, who conducted much of the research as a doctoral student at the University of California San Diego.

In October 2015, an unusual heat wave hit San Diego, where not everyone has air conditioning. Obradovich and his colleague Robyn Migliorini noticed “friends and colleagues in grad school weren’t sleeping well at night — sheets off, tossing and turning in the heat — and as a result people were lethargic and somewhat grumpy,” he said. “It was pretty unpleasant.”

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Children from two famlies in New York City sleep on the sidewalk in front of their building on West 188th St. to escape the heat during a power failure on July 7, 1999. Hotter nighttime temperatures appear to be disrupting our sleep patterns, a new study finds. (Photo: Mitch Jacobson, Associated Press)

Children from two famlies in New York City sleep on the sidewalk in front of their building on West 188th St. to escape the heat during a power failure on July 7, 1999. Hotter nighttime temperatures appear to be disrupting our sleep patterns, a new study finds. (Photo: Mitch Jacobson, Associated Press)