Study: Home air conditioning cut premature deaths on hot days 80% since 1960

Re:Study: Home air conditioning cut premature deaths on hot ... by switch007 on Monday December 24, 2012 @05:33PM (#4964371)

Can anyone explain why you can stand the heat in the day, but when it comes to night, while it may be a comfortable 15c outside you can't sleep, and it seems much hotter? Maybe it's just me. I'm talking about those (rare) 30c hot days in an English summer (no sniggering).

Is it internal, bodily factors or external factors (e.g. the house absorbing the heat? I don't buy that, though, as I can have all the windows open blowing cool air in and still not sleep).

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Re:Study: Home air conditioning cut premature deaths on hot ... by raverbashing on Monday December 24, 2012 @06:53PM (#4964538)

One of the issues is that your house heats/cools with a certain thermal inertia, so at the end of the day it's almost as hot as it gets (as it cools during the night and heats through the day). In the morning it's as cold as it gets, in the sunset it's as hot as it gets

There are probably some biological factors (still, I feel colder when sleeping, but of course I have a bad time sleeping when it's hot)

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Re:Study: Home air conditioning cut premature deaths on hot ... by pixl97 on Monday December 24, 2012 @11:48PM (#4965103)

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/mercola23.1.html

"When you sleep, your body’s internal temperature actually drops to its lowest level, generally about four hours after you fall asleep. Scientists believe a cooler bedroom may therefore be most conducive to sleep, since it mimics your body’s natural temperature drop."

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