But We Can All Feel Pious While Freezing In The Dark
In discussions of Net Zero, I’ve previously mentioned the pleasingly hard-nosed energy analyst Kathryn Porter.
Here she is being interviewed by the chaps at Triggernometry:
This Isn’t Science, It’s Ideology – Kathryn Porter
Watch the full episode with @KathrynPorter26, right here on X. pic.twitter.com/SLQB9l9Evb
— TRIGGERnometry (@triggerpod) September 28, 2025
“Excuse my language, but are they fucking mental…?”
“Yes.”
It’s ninety minutes, but time well spent and dense with information. Much of it of an eye-widening kind.
Ms Porter’s YouTube channel can be found here.
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She’s smart and sensible. Did she set off the alarm?
I’m now trying to imagine a conversation between Ms Porter and, er, Ed Miliband.
Or Ed fucking Miliband, as I believe he’s properly known.
The part on blackouts is horrifying. I remember the 1970s.
It won’t be fun. And on our current trajectory, it’s a very real possibility, along with energy rationing and other third-world scenarios. Conceivably, someone will have to decide which towns and cities to plunge into freezing darkness this week. And ecological pieties, however loudly announced, will not stop little old ladies from dying, or avert economic ruin.
And again, the nation’s hopes are pinned on Labour and Ed fucking Miliband. It’s almost funny, like some dark farce.
It’s worth noting, I think, that Ms Porter mentions niceness as being a euphemism for unrealistic and hopelessly wrong-headed. As I said in an earlier thread, regarding common assumptions and reactions to pretty much any demurral:
This is where we are.
As Typepad is due to shut down today, Mick Hartley has a new blog.
“The government doesn’t run the country. I think people need to understand that.”
The part on blackouts is horrifying. I remember the 1970s.
I was between my junior year and senior year of high school in the Bronx during the Summer of 1977.
Son of Sam, sweltering heat, and then – the big blackout and looting. As I recall, that was the first time in my childhood that a blackout was used to start stealing and trashing neighborhoods. My father joined the other men in our neighborhood to grab what they could and protect what you Brits call the high street (and we called “Bainbridge and Two Fourth”) in our neighborhood should the savages venture that far north in the borough. Fortunately, that did not happen.
And on our current trajectory, it’s a very real possibility, along with energy rationing and other third-world scenarios.
God bless the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and its embrace of nuclear power.
Sorry if this has been posted before, but I simply love the eloquence of Jo’s burn here.
Which reminds me, I should probably update the blogroll when I get a minute. If anyone has suggestions – sites that may be of interest to regulars here – by all means let me know.