Robert Osfield

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

“We must stop expecting carbon offsetting to work at scale. […] We have assessed 25 years of evidence and almost everything up until this point has failed.”

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Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 411 - October 5th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

Vaillant Arotherm Basic Settings 2025 | Energy Stats UK Vaillant Arotherm Basic Settings explained in a simple guide to schedules, setback, OT threshold, heat curve and room temp modes.

A new article: Vaillant Arotherm Basic Settings

Taking everything right back to basics for those new to their Arotherm heat pump. How to set up a simple heating schedule and understand the basic concepts of weather compensation controls.

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It's polarised because the right has become beholden to the fossil fuel industry to a far great extent, and the fossil fuel industry has supercharged the propaganda that right wingers have been pushed.

Get money out of politics and put a halt to propaganda and most of this division will evaporate.

More guns than people…

Is it freedom or a national death cult that keeps growing?

See How E.V. Road Trips Went From Impossible to Easy (Gift Article) There are a lot more fast chargers than there used to be. Look up what that could mean for a route near you.

The NYT Upshot folks have mapped out how much easier EV road trips have become in the last decade. Check it out. 🎁🔗

By transitioning our household we've cut our energy usage for heating, household appliances and transport by a 1/4.

Savings in energy costs are higher than the cost of the loan we took out for these upgrades.

Transitoning away from fossils fuels by using renewables and electrifying heating and transport are two major ways for use to cut energy usage.

It's something we can do as countries as well as indidual households - in the last year we've installed solar, batteries, heat-pump and got an BEV.

Is the Moon further from Earth than you pictured it? 🌕

Anu Ojha from @ukspaceagency.bsky.social helps us visualise just how far the Moon is from our planet, which isn't always evident from textbook diagrams that are not to scale.

Watch the full talk here: youtube.com/watch?v=7kCdY8o8cFI&t=7s

YouTube video by Lewis Standing New to EVs? Myth Busting 2 Battery life?!

youtu.be/qCYqANGR_t4

What's the battery 🪫🔋 health of my EV after 5 years and 70k miles?

How do different types of EV batteries last? Which brands are best?
How does charging or temperatures affect batteries?

Learn more here from 5:30 GMT
@everythingelectric.bsky.social

Volvo unveils electric coach chassis with 700 km range - electrive.com Volvo has presented a new coach chassis based on its BZR electric bus platform. The architecture supports a battery capacity of up to 720 kWh and is designed

www.electrive.com/2025/09/25/v...

Volvo EV coaches with 720KWh batteries, able to take journeys of 700kms between charges.

The coach could do Edinburgh to Brighton for example on a single charge.

@everythingelectric.bsky.social

Careers Are you ready to put your passion for a cleaner energy future to work? Join the RAP team. RAP is seeking collaborators who are enthusiastic about clean energy. We’re looking for curiosity, humor and i...

The brilliant Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) is looking for two UK based people to join our team as HR assistant and people operations coordinator. Please share. www.raponline.org/who-we-are/c...

Newsom: "People ask, 'Are you being hyperbolic?' Bullshit we're being hyperbolic. If you're Black or brown, it's here in this country. And so I'm deeply proud that I had the privilege of signing the nation's first bill to address masking ... these are authoritarian actions by an authoritarian govt"

Aviation Vision 2050: The potential for climate-neutral growth - International Council on Clean Transportation To comply with the Paris agreement, aviation decarbonization strategies need to include controls on short-lived climate pollutants to complement greenhouse gas mitigation.

Suspending all false modesty, allow me to introduce a new ICCT report that a prominent environmental researcher (me) is calling "Book I of the New Testament of aviation decarbonization".
Very long; must read. What if aviation isn't a hard to abate sector after all? (🧵)
theicct.org/publication/...

China enlists solar panels in war to halt desert sands In arid northern China, dozens of workers prune goji berry bushes that stretch out under the protective shade of thousands of solar panels.

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China is halting the expansion of the gobi desert by planting goji berries beneath solar panels.

The shade reduces heat and water stress on the plants.

Excellent

The odd thing is that Reform is getting so much coverage in the media.

Greens and Lib Dems get almost no coverage but have more seats and are more relevant to current power. Labour and Conservatives don't seem to headline half as often.

Media are pushing Reform way beyond their credibility.

The last precedential election in France was an example of the centre and left fighting back against the rise of the right and working together well enough to stop the far right for taking power.

Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization Section 1.  Antifa as a Terrorist Threat.  Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States

Trump has designated Antifa as a terrorist organization, which will likely have all sorts of repercussions, none if them good, for American cities www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Trump is deploying the National Guard to DC by using a classic fascist propaganda tactic: attacking homeless people

THE HYPOCRISY IS THE POINT!!

Heat Pump Cycling and Minimum Modulation | Energy Stats UK Heat pump cycling in mild weather explained: why it happens, how minimum modulation works, and what to expect in your own system.

Heat Pump Cycling and Minimum Modulation

A homeowner focused article where I look to explain why heat pump cycling occurs in mild weather now that people's heating is clicking on.

Lots of data and a calculator.

Hope this is useful.

energy-stats.uk/heat-pump-cy...

#FoodFactsFriday

➡️ 80% of low-income Zambians live in rural areas & depend on farming.
➡️ 60% are employed in agriculture, with 1.65M mostly rain-fed farms.
➡️ Maize dominates, but other value chains hold potential.

Building resilience is urgent.

Find more 👉https://bit.ly/4n4FjBi

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Is Charlie Kirk Their Reichstag Moment? Trump and the GOP are itching to exploit Kirk’s murder to expand their authoritarian aims

After Charlie Kirk’s murder, Trump and his allies wasted no time crafting an insidious and baseless narrative: that the left is violent, the right is under siege, and only they can restore order. Sound familiar? The Nazis tried the same playbook.

Four new sample asset glTF models by Eric Chadwick

In this blog post, Eric Chadwick introduces the four newest showcase assets and talks about the unique challenges they present. These models were designed not just to look great in the updated glTF Sample Viewer, but to demonstrate what’s possible with glTF […]

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The Vulkanised 2026 call for submissions ends in less than a month. Vulkanised is the largest event dedicated to developers using the Vulkan API and is a unique technical event that brings the Vulkan developer community together to exchange ideas, solve problems and help steer the future […]

Today the League of Women Voters mobilizes hundreds of thousands of voters in a single day—National Voter Registration Day. Now more than ever, it is as vital to register as it is to check you registration. You can do it all online: www.vote411.org Use it! Don’t lose it! @lwvus.bsky.social

Gov. Greg Abbott pardons Daniel Perry, veteran who killed police brutality protester in 2020 A Travis County jury sentenced Perry to 25 years in prison last year, prompting Abbott to ask the state parole board to review his case.

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer.

The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial.

Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this.

You're welcome

The Point, However, Is to Change It | Los Angeles Review of Books In advance of Andreas Malm and Wim Carton’s forthcoming book “The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late,” Genevieve Guenther revisits the authors’ 2024 title “Overshoot: How the World Surrend...

After Paris, the IPCC justified the expansion of the fossil-fuel system by implicitly promising that we could "overshoot” 1.5C yet ultimately meet the target anyway.

What does this mean? Read my deep dive into Andreas Malm & @wimcarton.bsky.social's *Overshoot*

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Graph showing the gap between PHEVs' real-world and official WLTP emissions

Holy cow.

www.transportenvironment.org/articles/plu...