Rich in Energy, Poor in Policy (Audiobook)

THE BILL HAS ARRIVED. HERE’S WHO SENT IT.

Rich in Energy, Poor in Policy: The Truth About CO2, Hydrocarbons and the Net Zero Rip-Off – Audiobook

Look at your energy bill. Then look at the price of a train ticket, your weekly shop, a pint. It isn’t bad luck. It’s policy.

For more than 30 years, governments have spent trillions of pounds of your money chasing one goal: cutting carbon dioxide, the gas every plant on Earth feeds on. And the bill is about to get bigger again. Bloomberg Economics forecasts household energy bills rising by around 25% this January, right in the coldest months of the year.

Britain is rich in energy. We sit on coal, gas and oil. We pioneered nuclear power. We have centuries of engineering skill. What we lack is sound policy.

No time to read? Press play. Listen in the car, at the gym, on the school run or while you work. Every fact, every argument and every comeback, straight into your ears.

This book closes that gap. It’s the next essential listen after The Beginners Guide To The Climate Con. It follows the money, shows you exactly what Net Zero is costing you and who is cashing in, and sets you free from the Net Zero story for good.

Why this is essential listening

The Net Zero planners have admitted the one thing they can’t survive without: you. The Climate Change Committee said it in black and white in its own report, In Our Hands:

“Without changes to people’s behaviours now, the target of net zero by 2050 is not achievable.”

That is their weakness. Every person who learns the facts and passes them on weakens a policy built on fear. You don’t need to shout. You need to be calm, confident and well informed, and this audiobook gets you there while you get on with your day.

What you’ll hear

– Why the famous “97% consensus” falls apart. Of 11,944 climate abstracts, only 64 (0.5%) actually said humans cause most of the warming (Cook et al., 2013)
– Why cold is the real killer. In England and Wales, 99% of temperature-related excess deaths were from cold (Lancet Planetary Health, 2022)
– Why we want MORE CO2, not less. It’s the gas of life, just 0.04% of the air, and the Earth is getting greener because of it
– The “snail with a sword”, the simplest way you’ll ever hear to explain why sea-level rise is nothing to panic about
– Why we pay wind farms to switch off: more than £200 million in 2022 alone, all on your bill
– “If we need the gas anyway, why not just use the gas?”, the question the renewables lobby can’t answer
– How Durham residents beat a 90,000-panel solar farm, and how you can do the same
– The £57 million plan to dim the sun, and why it’s one of the easiest arguments you’ll ever win
– Who really profits, and why you and your family pay for all of it
– Why hydrocarbons are a gift, not a curse, and why we are not running out
– A sensible energy policy for Britain in six steps, plus exactly what you can do this week

From the book, Chapter 3: More CO2, Please. CO2 at Mauna Loa, 316 ppm (1959) to 427 ppm (2025). Data: NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory.

From the book, Chapter 4: A Warmer, Greener, Safer World. Average excess deaths a year in England and Wales, 2000–2019: 60,573 from cold, 791 from heat. Data: Gasparrini et al. (2022), Lancet Planetary Health.

From the book, Chapter 8: Hello Hydrocarbons. World coal, oil and gas use, 40.5k TWh (1965) to 142.4k TWh (2024), 81% of world energy. Data: Energy Institute, Statistical Review of World Energy, via Our World in Data.

Contents

Introduction: The Bill Has Arrived

– Why almost everything costs more, and why it’s policy, not bad luck
– Six truths that ought to be common knowledge
– The real power the Net Zero planners admit you hold

PART ONE: THE STORY WE WERE SOLD

Chapter 1: How the Warming Story Was Built

– From the 1970s “global freeze” scare to Net Zero written into UK law
– Club of Rome, Rio, Kyoto, the hockey stick, Climategate and the IPCC
– The “97% consensus” myth, taken apart number by number

Chapter 2: The Climate Has Always Changed

– Roman and Medieval warm periods, with vineyards as far north as Yorkshire
– The Sun, the orbit and the oceans: the natural cycles that ignore carbon taxes
– Sea-level rise and the snail with a sword

PART TWO: THE GAS OF LIFE

Chapter 3: More CO2, Please

– Five CO2 myths taken apart
– Why CO2’s warming effect fades as levels rise (the red paint test)
– How the planet was heading for a CO2 shortage, and why cows are not planet destroyers

Chapter 4: A Warmer, Greener, Safer World

– Cold kills far more than heat, in every region of the world
– The greening Earth and the wildlife that welcomes warmth
– Extreme weather, ice and polar bears: the good news the doom story leaves out

PART THREE: POOR IN POLICY

Chapter 5: The Wind and Solar Rip-Off

– Why more wind and solar means higher bills
– Turbines that break, get paid to switch off and need full gas backup
– Your countryside, your farmland, and how communities are fighting back and winning

Chapter 6: Electric Cars and the Mandate Machine

– Expensive to make, expensive to own, propped up by your taxes
– The carmakers quietly abandoning their own EV targets
– The money being spent to dim the sun

Chapter 7: Who Pays and Who Profits

– The Climate Change Committee’s own admission: they need your behaviour to change
– What three decades of policy have cost ordinary families
– Who wins: China, green investors and the climate bureaucracy

PART FOUR: RICH IN ENERGY

Chapter 8: Hello Hydrocarbons

– The foundations of modern life, and why we are not running out
– A fair word for nuclear and small modular reactors
– What sensible energy policy actually looks like

Chapter 9: The Good News, and How We Win

– The tide is turning, and you can feel it
– How to win the conversation: calm, factual and good-humoured
– What you can do this week

This book is for you if…

– You’re tired of paying more for less: on your energy bill, your shopping and your train ticket
– You’ve ever been asked “So you don’t believe in climate change?” and wanted the perfect calm answer
– You’ve read The Beginners Guide To The Climate Con and want the cost-of-living, follow-the-money follow-up
– You’re fighting a solar farm on local farmland and need the facts and the precedent
– You want to talk to friends and family without a shouting match, armed with facts anyone can check
– You’d rather listen than read: on the commute, at the gym, walking the dog or while you work

Why you need it now

Bills are forecast to jump around 25% this January. Net Zero is written into law at an estimated £1 trillion. Solar developers are going after prime farmland in Norfolk, Essex and Oxfordshire. And the tide is turning: petrol-car bans pushed back, carmakers dropping EV targets, councils rejecting solar farms. People are asking questions, and this audiobook gives you the answers, ready for your next drive.

“You can only shout that the sky is falling for so long before people look up and see that it isn’t.”

About Travis Cook

Travis Cook is the author of The Beginners Guide To The Climate Con and Climate Common Sense. Growing up in the “often drab, grey and cold UK”, his honest first reaction to global warming was: yes, please. This book turns that common sense into a calm, confident case anyone can make.

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4 Parts

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Cheers,
Travis