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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

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...

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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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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

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...

A map of the Mexico Valley Megalopolis showing the heterogeneous increase in extreme rainfall intensity due to climate change and the urban heat island

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Bruce Webber @drbrucewebber.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

"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).

Jane Goodall in a tall rainforest looking up into the canopy with binoculars in her hands.

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

What's happening with all those surplus PV modules?

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

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...

Cover of the UNESCO report titled "Who Bears the Costs? Addressing inequalities from climate change and climate action"

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

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%...

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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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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Voici le détail de la technologie, trouvé dans le deuxième article: "Pour les férus de mécanique, l’ascenseur de Saint-Gervais repose sur un système de ballastières (sorte de cuve métallique) remplies d’eaux usées pour créer le déséquilibre nécessaire à son fonctionnement."

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Ça me ennui que même fans l'article ils ne donnent plus de détails sur la "réutilisation des eaux usées." Je suppose qu'on produit de l'électricité avec le biogaz du traitement anaérobie des boues d'une station d'épuration

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

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%...

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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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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

The carbon footprint of a single query also seems to be suspiciously focused in a very narrow portion of the product's lifecycle. I'm guessing the model training is what consumes most energy and is not included in those calculations.

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

It is a nice vision, though I'd rather dream of dense networks of trams with a few niche uses of those EVs

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

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%...

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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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Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com · 22/08/2025

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

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

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%...

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The duck curve: solar energy’s challenge

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

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

The entire website is a gold mine for AI slop images

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

The entire website is a goldmine for AI slop images

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

"... how is it that people with this views always have to be..." I should not change the way a want to phrase something halfway through a sentence haha.

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

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%...

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¿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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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I know there's academic freedom, but one wonders how can people with these views always have to be professors from top universities.

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

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%...

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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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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

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/

A screenshot of the mobile version of my personal website.

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

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

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

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.

A global map representing the porcentage change in precipitation for every degree in global temperature reduced by stratospheric aerosol injection.

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

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.

Scaling factors for GeoMIP-pattern. (a) Global mean near-surface temperature for the 6 GCMs that participated in the G6sulfur experiment, (b) Difference between G6sulfur and SSP5-8.5 global mean near-surface temperature.

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

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"

SAI, SRM, and geoengineering in general are surrounded by ethical concerns, particularly by the unilateral capability of state and non-state actors to start and stop a geoengineering program. The termination shock, that is, a sudden conclusion of geoengineering and a fast onset of the avoided climate change, is expected to have disastrous consequences and is considered of particular concern. Additionally, while simulations show geoengineering is successful in dampening global average temperature increase, regional and local impacts on climate are far less understood and their associated second-order effects on the Earth system and the global economy might offset the benefits derived from global climate change mitigation. It is therefore imperative to conduct impact analyses on natural, economic and social systems on a regional scale to further understand the consequences of geoengineering.

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

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...

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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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We Could Send Letters @wecdsend.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

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 cover of Bob Marley and The Wailers' 1976 album 'Rastaman Vibration'.

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

But will it not be necessary to rely on some negative emissions technology (like BECCS) to compensate hard- or impossible-to-abate emissions in sectors like agriculture? Most integrated assessment models lead to that conclusion

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 31/05/2025

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

Graph of carbon dioxide designed as the painting of "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai.

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Climática @climatica.coop · 13/04/2025

🤖 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. climatica.coop/secciones/vinetas

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

“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.”

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Elaborating on that reflection, Eliane also says that the so-called peripheries of cities are the real centers, since they hold most of the population. How often urban planning ignores the real extent of cities; for example, the "official" Mexico City has 8M people, while the "real" one has 24M.

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

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

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

The world has warmed by 0.59°C since the Paris Agreement was signed at COP21 in 2015.

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

For example, the world has warmed 1.15°C since Wonderwall by Oasis was released in 1995.

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

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...

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Temperature Anomalies

Proyecto enfocado en el análisis y visualización de anomalías de temperatura y eventos históricos climáticos para comprender el impacto del cambio climático en un contexto científico y educativo....

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The problem with that analysis is that they refuse to acknowledge that the lack of a blue surge was probably more due to voters being put off by the more-of-the-same campaign and an irrational refusal to exert strong pressure for a truce, rather than a lack of fear of a second administration.

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

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...

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

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.

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

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.

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Mal-adaptation as a "reasonable response" adds another layer to super-wickedness of climate crisis. Environmental justice groups would have lot of resources to help think through this. And, Indigenous Nations or leaders who understand how boom and bust works. CC: @ceja.org @indigenousja.bsky.social

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

No possible way this is compatible with net zero goals of countries heavily dependent on meat production, and yet they somehow expect to keep leveraging this industry for economic growth while touting expansion of their carbon sinks to achieve their lofty climate goals.

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I had a teacher in high school make that argument dead serious... it was an odd experience. Btw, he was Canadian and this was before Trudeau, but I'm guessing he's glad about the recent turn of events.

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

“We basically have three choices: mitigation, adaptation and suffering. We’re going to do some of each. The question is what the mix is going to be. The more mitigation we do, the less adaptation will be required and the less suffering there will be.” - John Holdren, Obama's science advisor in 2007

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Mexico is warming faster than the global average. Our first estimations using GISTEMP show a 2.14°C 2024 anomaly and a 1.8°C climatological increase with respect to 1900-1930 (low effort screenshot for the preliminary data haha)

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 10/01/2025

I would add: It never meant that 1.49 was safe, and 1.51 was all over. Rather, the conclusions of the IPCC 1.5C report were clear:

IPCC conclusions: every bit of warming matters

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