Is there anything climate change can't do?
It makes summers hot. It's the reason meteorologists can't accurately predict tomorrow's weather. It causes wildfires. And earthquakes. It also increases the cost of your insurance. Or something.
Now ABC News has found something else to blame climate change for: sleep apnea.
Rising temperatures, amplified by climate change, are contributing to an increase in cases of sleep apnea, a condition in which breathing repeatedly stops during sleep, according to a new study. https://t.co/7Bq7AcoWv2
โ ABC News (@ABC) July 1, 2025
Rising temperatures, amplified by climate change, are contributing to an increase in cases of sleep apnea, a condition in which breathing repeatedly stops during sleep, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Communications.
'If temperature keeps rising the way they project it to, the burden and prevalence of sleep apnea may double, increasing by 20-100%, depending on greenhouse gas emission reduction,' Bastien Lechat, the study's author and a senior research fellow at Flinders University in Australia, told ABC News.
Obstructive sleep apnea, or OSA, affects about 1 billion people globally, and 80% of people who have it are unaware and untreated, according to the American Medical Association. Common symptoms of OSA include loud snoring, daytime tiredness, high blood pressure and headaches upon waking, even if 'sleeping' eight hours, according to the Mayo Clinic.
This is not accurate.
Obstructive sleep apnea is caused by physiological conditions such as obesity, facial structure, endocrine disorders, and gender, or behaviors like smoking and drug/alcohol use.
Climate change does not impact any of those factors.
Do you realize each time you use โclimate changeโ as a reason for anything the entire story is deemed bulls**t?
โ Troy Pallotto ๐บ๐ธ (@troypallotto) July 1, 2025
They do not.
Sure it is. pic.twitter.com/0x5J6uPK85
โ Jack Bauer after dark ๐บ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ฑ (@JackBauerAD) July 1, 2025
Keep moving that goalpost, Lefties.
FYI: every time you claim โclimate changeโ we laugh harder.
โ Cathy โค๏ธ Braves โพ๏ธ๐บ๐ธโพ๏ธ (@Gap422) July 1, 2025
Why not just tell us what is not caused by climate change? Then weโll know what that ONE thing that is and you can finally go away and leave us alone.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Everything is caused by climate change. They're just waiting on some 'study' to confirm it.
Rising temperatures would've sufficed. "Climate change" happens from season to season. Its a natural, cyclical, sometimes w/extremes, seasonal process. It doesn't mean we're turning into deserts.
โ Lozen (@lozensclone) July 1, 2025
They can't use 'rising temperatures' because temps aren't rising and that's why they pivoted to 'climate change' instead of 'global warming.'
That is ridiculous and Iโm pretty sure Fake News
โ Fiona Kitty Mom (@fionakittymom) July 1, 2025
It's fake news.
Itโs official โฆ climate change makes me fat https://t.co/cF3OyOB0Gz
โ Tom Buckley (@BullheadRanch) July 1, 2025
Heh.
โ Dr Manhattva (@Manhattva) July 1, 2025
Our sentiments exactly.
Something is contributing to an increase in sleep apnea?
โ ๐บ๐ธ ๐๐๐๐๐ฉ๐ช๐๐ก ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ฉ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ง ๐บ๐ธ (@MmHabitual) July 1, 2025
Itโs not climate change. Youโre getting fatter. https://t.co/t5LqTImL4H
Losing weight helps with sleep apnea.
Who will believe this? https://t.co/WCMPUUIotF
โ Freyjaโข (@FreyjaTarte) July 1, 2025
There are a bunch of Lefties who will fall for this.