This Isn't Science, It's Ideology - Kathryn Porter

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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0:00.0	The government is making us all poorer and less safe.
0:08.0	Yes.
0:08.9	And they're doing this for ideological reasons.
0:13.7	As you start replacing those conventional generators with renewables, they can contribute to the problem.
0:19.5	We saw that in Spain.
0:24.0	So we had an near miss in January. What does that mean, Catherine? That we nearly ran out of generation. We neither had
0:31.3	blackouts. We nearly had blackouts because we nearly just didn't have enough power stations
0:34.7	to meet demand. Now they're going to introduce something
0:38.6	called the carbon border adjustment mechanism. So what are the products that we're talking about
0:43.8	that are going to be taxed with this? Everything. Clothes, steel, cars, concrete, wind turbines, solar panels, everything.
0:57.5	Excuse my language, are they f***ing mental?
1:00.1	Yes.
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1:17.6	with exclusive bonus content ad-free. Catherine, welcome to Trigonometry. Thank you. Great to have
1:25.0	you on. Before we have a what I think will be a fascinating conversation about energy, energy prices in this country, and Net Zero, which we've talked about a lot on this show.
1:34.5	Just tell everybody a little bit about who are you, your background, how are you here, and what's your expertise in this area?
1:40.0	Okay, so I run my own energy consulting business.
1:42.9	I'm just coming up in April to my 10-year anniversary,
1:46.8	but I'm very much an accidental consultant.
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