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PLOS Climate PhD interview: Rodrigo Muñoz - Latitude

In the next instalment in our series of interviews with PhD students in climate research, PLOS Climate speaks to Rodrigo Muñoz of…

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Our new paper studies how Mexico's subsidized residential electric tariff structure results in a public utility with highly vulnerable finances to climate change + a proposal to reduce the tariff burden, its climate vulnerability, all while achieving a progressive subsidy. doi.org/10.1007/s110...

Impacts of climate change on electrical subsidies’ public policies: the case of Mexico - Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Several countries around the world subsidize electrical tariffs. Mexico’s residential tariff structure is among the most complex and subsidized, depending on blocks of consumption and local temperatur...

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We have a new preprint available, where we do dynamical downscaling to show how that the urban heat island could have an comparable effect to climate chage in its contribution to increasing extreme rainfall intensity in tropical urban regions. ssrn.com/abstract=621...

"The greatest danger to our future is apathy. ... What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." - Vale Jane Goodall (1934-2025).

I participated in this report by UNESCO, titled Who Bears the Costs? Addressing inequalities from climate change and climate action", published around two months ago. I designed three climate exposure and vulnerabiliy indices, which I'll explain in further posts. doi.org/10.54678/GIX...

Another brief piece exploring some environmental philosophy topics. This time I wrote about Arne Naess' Deep Ecology and us being part of nature. rodrigoms95.github.io/eng/izcalli%...

From the wading pool to the diving pit: Deep Ecology

For thousands of years, humans have questioned our relationship with the environment around us.

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This is the press release for our recent paper regarding SRM model emulation for impact evaluation rodrigoms95.github.io/eng/climate%...

Researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico develop a tool to model the local impacts of geoengineering

Researchers from UNAM have developed a tool to model the impacts that geoengineering interventions would have in Mexico.

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Rodrigo Muñoz@rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm pleased to announce our newest paper published at Scientific Data, where we establish a framework for generating fast, custom SRM scenarios. This will allow us to develop probabilístic regional and global impact studies of geoengineering interventions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I really enjoyed writing this articles, where I talk about the wicked nature of climate change, how we are tangled in its net, and how can we break free from it. rodrigoms95.github.io/eng/izcalli%...

Untangling the wicked knots of climate change

What do cooking a frog in a pot, flushing the toilet, and turning the key to start our car have in common?

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Some thoughts on how residential energy consumption is expected to rise in a wamer climate (with very local projections!) and how countries with current low AC penetrations are expected to have double trouble with rising incomes. rodrigoms95.github.io/eng/izcalli%...

Your electricity bill will be more expensive due to climate change

The impacts of climate change on our household economies will be considerable.

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In 2019 BEVs were just 0.7% of new cars. By 2025 they hit 15.7%, with BEV+PHEV+HEV = 43%. Even on conservative estimates, BEVs will pass 50% by 2030 to become the #1 powertrain, while ICE crashes to ~15–20%. ⚡ From niche to dominant in a decade. #EV #BEV #Disruption #LFP #RIPICE

In this article I talk about how solar energy's variability is a challenge to its integration, and how storage is essential to a decarbonized grid. rodrigoms95.github.io/eng/izcalli%...

The duck curve: solar energy’s challenge

A fundamental problem with solar energy is that it is variable.

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In this article published originally in a local newspaper of Izcalli, a suburb of Mexico City, I wonder whether geoengineering can solve climate change (tl;dr most probably not) rodrigoms95.github.io/eng/izcalli%...

¿Can geoengineering solve climate change?

Geoengineering pretends to fight climate change by releasing particles that reflect solar radiation. Source: gwagner.com/wsj-sg/ Climate change is the result of activities that make up our econ...

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I wrote this small piece to reflect on how the local impacts of climate change are turning the worst recorded events into common ones. Izcalli is an industrial suburb of Mexico City, which has more than 23 million inhabitants. rodrigoms95.github.io/eng/izcalli%...

Extreme rainfall and climate change in Cuautitlan Izcalli, Mexico City

Photo: ADN 40. We are all familiar with the idea that climate change is bringing about rising temperatures and, consequently, more intense heat waves in summer. However, in reality, it involves a mu...

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I created my Github website four years ago and never really used it. I've now updated it with my research and conferences, and reposted some writing I've done on some other sites. I hope to keep it up to date more often. rodrigoms95.github.io/eng/

Furthest I've been: N: Abisko, Sweden E: Tokio, Japan S: Puerto Montt, Chile W: Portland OR, US

Paula Kivimaa@paulakivimaa.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Furthest I've been: N: Kirkenes, Norway E: Dalian, China S: Pretoria, South Africa W: Dallas, US

Scaling patterns give us a glimpse of the regional impacts of geoengineering. Precipitation is particularly problematic, with both strong wetting and drying (and model disagreement) in the tropics. This is the percentage change in precipitation for every degree in global temperature reduced by SAI.

Rodrigo Muñoz@rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · last yr.

Pattern scaling, the focus of our paper, allows us to generate maps of temperature or precipitation anomalies for geoengineering scenarios using only global temperature increase due to GHGs and tenperature reduction due to aerosol injection. Custom scenarios can be modelled using climate emulators.

Spent the morning updating my research profiles. Here's my Researchgate in case you want to connect over there. www.researchgate.net/profile/Rodr...

Rodrigo MUÑOZ SÁNCHEZ | Instructor | Master of Science | National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City | UNAM | Division of Civil and Geomatics Engineering | Research profile

I am an Adjunct Professor at the Environmental Engineering Department at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). I am currently on a PhD on climate change impacts on renewable energy syst...

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Pattern scaling, the focus of our paper, allows us to generate maps of temperature or precipitation anomalies for geoengineering scenarios using only global temperature increase due to GHGs and tenperature reduction due to aerosol injection. Custom scenarios can be modelled using climate emulators.

Rodrigo Muñoz@rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · last yr.

This paragraph summarizes our motivations for researching SRM modelling, especially this phrase: "while simulations show geoengineering is successful in dampening global average temperature increase, regional and local impacts … on the Earth system and the global economy might offset the benefits"

This paragraph summarizes our motivations for researching SRM modelling, especially this phrase: "while simulations show geoengineering is successful in dampening global average temperature increase, regional and local impacts … on the Earth system and the global economy might offset the benefits"

Rodrigo Muñoz@rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm pleased to announce our newest paper published at Scientific Data, where we establish a framework for generating fast, custom SRM scenarios. This will allow us to develop probabilístic regional and global impact studies of geoengineering interventions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm pleased to announce our newest paper published at Scientific Data, where we establish a framework for generating fast, custom SRM scenarios. This will allow us to develop probabilístic regional and global impact studies of geoengineering interventions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

GeoMIP-Pattern – a pattern scaling dataset for efficient generation of custom geoengineering scenarios - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - GeoMIP-Pattern – a pattern scaling dataset for efficient generation of custom geoengineering scenarios

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Day 23: Bob Marley & The Wailers - War (1976) With a significant assist from Emperor Haile Selassie I. Until the philosophy which hold one race superior And another Inferior Is finally And permanently Discredited And abandoned - Everywhere is war. song.link/y/-JwL3lPBQ5E #ALL50RTS

"The Great Wave" of carbon dioxide (CO₂) #ClimateChange #ScienceArt Graphic produced by robbieandrew.github.io

🤖 Producción de IA "La producción de datos, concretamente de inteligencia artificial, no dista mucho de la producción capitalista de toda la vida", reflexiona @atxe.bsky.social  en su nueva viñeta. https://climatica.coop/secciones/vinetas/

“It is when you look on the face of any woman or man and see that they are your sister or brother. Because if you cannot do this, then no matter what time it is, it is still night.”

The centers of the world are the enclaves where Nature still resists – and not the centers where the political and financial decisions that destroy our home-planet are made. The centers of the world are the Amazon, the Oceans … and not Washington, Paris… — Eliane Brum, 2025 World's Top Thinker

Our team at the Climate Change Research Program (PINCC) at UNAM did this amazing web app that lets you know the temperature increase since famous song were released: datapincc.unam.mx/cronicasclim...

So apparently current policies point towards the RPC4.5 trajectory (even though I feel the SSP3 fragmented narrative seems more plausible than the inertial SSP2 one). That is assuming current policies don't diverge starting tomorrow...

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 2y ago

This reflects a bit of good news; 2.7C is a lot better than the 4C that many thought we were heading for a decade ago, and reflects real progress on moving away from a 21st century dominated by coal. At the same time, its far from what is needed:

Bigger electric SUVs are not much much of an improvement from ICE cars, but that's apparently the western automakers bid to compensate for their faltering sales.

Costa Samaras@costasamaras.com · 2y ago

Senator, I believe the memo was called www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Every semester I reduce the number of slides to to have some more slack and somehow every term I struggle more not to run out of time.

Emily Grubert@gruberte.bsky.social · 2y ago

Literally every term I panic that I’m going to run out of material and have to let my class out after 15 minutes and literally every term I re-demonstrate that I can run out of time in a 3 hour class with 15 slides