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…

In the next in our series of interviews with PhD students in climate science, we hear from @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social 👇

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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...

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.

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

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.

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

"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).

What's happening with all those surplus PV modules?

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

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.

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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.

Another brief piece exploring some environmental philosophy topics. This time I wrote about Arne Naess' Deep Ecology and us being part of nature.

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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."

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

❤️ It’s that time of year ! We’ve had some whoppers in our house.

Animation by @vsualarts

Poem: Mercy by Rudy Francisco

#Spiders

This is the press release for our recent paper regarding SRM model emulation for impact evaluation

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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?

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.

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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.

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

Your electricity bill will be more expensive due to climate change The impacts of climate change on our household economies will be considerable.

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.

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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

The duck curve: solar energy’s challenge A fundamental problem with solar energy is that it is variable.

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.

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The entire website is a gold mine for AI slop images

The entire website is a goldmine for AI slop images

"... 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.

¿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...

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)

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

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...

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.

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A screenshot of the mobile version of my personal website.

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

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 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...

Spent the morning updating my research profiles. Here's my Researchgate in case you want to connect over there.

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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.

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"

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

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...