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Rodrigo Muñoz

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Climate Science PhD student at UNAM, México Socioeconomic impacts of climate change, renewable energy “And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.'”

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · Aug 1

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.

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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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Bruce Webber @drbrucewebber.bsky.social · 7d

"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 · Sep 6

What's happening with all those surplus PV modules?

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · Aug 27

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

Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · Aug 26

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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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 · Aug 25

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."

Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · Aug 24

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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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · Aug 23

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

Animation by @vsualarts

Poem: Mercy by Rudy Francisco

#Spiders

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · Aug 23

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

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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · Aug 23

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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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 · Aug 22

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.

Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · Aug 22

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

Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · Aug 22

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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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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EV Curve Futurist @evcurvefuturist.com · Aug 22

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 · Aug 21

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 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 · Aug 20

The entire website is a gold mine for AI slop images

Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · Aug 20

The entire website is a goldmine for AI slop images

Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · Aug 14

"... 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.

Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · Aug 14

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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¿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 · Aug 13

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 · Aug 12

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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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 · Aug 10

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.

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A screenshot of the mobile version of my personal website.

Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · Aug 9

Furthest I've been:

N: Abisko, Sweden
E: Tokio, Japan
S: Puerto Montt, Chile
W: Portland OR, US

Paula Kivimaa @paulakivimaa.bsky.social · Aug 9

Furthest I've been:

N: Kirkenes, Norway
E: Dalian, China
S: Pretoria, South Africa
W: Dallas, US

Vera Mikkilä @veramikkila.bsky.social · Aug 9

Furthest I’ve been:

N: Rovaniemi, Finland
E: Moscow, Russia
S: Cape Coast, Ghana
W: Baton Rouge, USA

Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · Aug 9

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.

Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · Aug 6

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

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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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Rodrigo Muñoz @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social · Aug 4

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.