In the next in our series of interviews with PhD students in climate science, we hear from @rodrigo-munoz.bsky.social 👇 latitude.plos.org/2026/03/plos...

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...

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%...

❤️ 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 rodrigoms95.github.io/eng/climate%...

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%...

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%...

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%...

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%...

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%...

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.

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

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"

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...

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...

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.

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.

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

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.

“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

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)

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:

Copernicus reports that 2024 was the hottest year and the first calendar year the world’s average global temperature exceeded 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

🚨Reporters🚨: Don't say stuff like this. We know that climate change is now affecting EVERY EXTREME EVENT. Whether climate change contributed is no longer an interesting question. OF COURSE CLIMATE CHANGE CONTRIBUTED. The only interesting question is *how much of an effect it had*.

"... atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity... Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred." Frank Herbert had terrifying prescient vision back in 1976

Fuel loading driven by a wet period followed by rapid onset drought (in an otherwise longer-period of drought) is a big driver of wildfire cycles. Throw in intense winds and a bunch of humans, and well, that’s one way you create a disaster.

The same story is unfolding at so many lakes over the world. Mexico's second largest lake, Cuitzeo, has dried up significantly in the last decade, spelling doom for the traditional fisherfolk lifestyle.

The best moment to stop fossil fuel extraction was yesterday; the second best moment is today. www.theguardian.com/business/202...