Global warming in the United States is amping up the country’s sweet tooth, a new study found.

When the temperature rises, Americans — especially those with less money and education — drink lots more sugary beverages and a bit more frozen desserts. It amounts to more than 100 million pounds of added sugar (358 million kilograms) consumed in a year, compared to 15 years earlier, according to a team of researchers in the U.S. and United Kingdom writing in Monday’s Nature Climate Change.

“People tend to take in more sweetened beverages as the temperature is getting higher and higher,” said study co-author Duo Chan, a climate scientist at the University of Southampton. “Obviously under a warming climate that would cause you to drink more or take in more sugar. And that is going to be a sever

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