Penny Tangey

Does everyone else know that Agatha Christie was surfing in the 1920s? I just found out today

I could cry thinking about how much better the world would be for human beings if leaders had decided to end dependency on fossil fuels as soon as fast as possible.

Every International Women's Day I like to remember the man who started a speech acknowledging the day and then when his female colleague got up to have her turn shouted "Jane's drunk!" and everyone laughed so she sat down again.

Happy IWD to all who celebrate not like that.

In 2024 the Perth Garden Show was sponsored by gas supplier Kleenheat.

In 2026 Kleenheat is no longer a presenting partner and the event has a much bigger focus on sustainability.

I don't know how this change came about but seems a sign for WA: gas sponsors aren't needed for events.

🚨 We are 100 days from the start of the World Cup. Today, we’re launching an international supporters campaign calling on FIFA to drop its sponsorship deal with Aramco.

“Simply Cannot Be Ignored”: How Australia’s fossil fuel industry shaped the climate future by capturing economic models Heatwaves and bushfires burned across southern Australia this January thanks in part to climate change. An Australian government agency once insisted it might not happen.

In 1988 an innocuous Australian government agency was tasked with gathering statistics for industry. Its work made it a flashpoint for critics who charged that it helped rationalise climate denial.

With ABARE's internal records now open access, I took or look for @drilledmedia.bsky.social.

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It's a bit of fun!

What Rhymes with Murder? Only Murders in the Building meets The Thursday Murder Club in this hilarious new take on cosy crime. When exhausted new mother Frida attends Baby Rhyme Time at the local…

I've written a book for adults called What Rhymes with Murder? about a new mother who's a bit bored and lonely and starts investigating a crime after a body is found at the library during Baby Rhyme Time.

It's out now

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I'm a children's author so can't possibly say cunt.

It's so important that we explain our decision to ruin the planet in terms children can understand.

I'm going to write one on fossil fuel sponsorship called:

Some Thankyous Are Hard

It will help model gratitude towards people who have ruined kids lives but gave them a sticker pack or similar

If Carbon Capture & Storage CCS actually reduced emissions, Minister for Climate Change & Energy & COP31 President of Negotiations, @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social, would be giving the Keynote — NOT Minister for Fossil Fuels, sorry, Resources, Madeleine King

#LaborClimateAction

You can kick the truth tellers out of the CCS conference, but you can't make CCS work!

From fig leaf to scam —> #CCS is the new political alchemy #auspol

Activists disrupted a Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) conference in Melbourne this morning where the Resources Minister, Madeleine King spoke.

CCS is a nice idea, but it doesn't work and is now simply an excuse for fossil fuel companies to keep operating. It's a scam.

Thanks @xrvic.bsky.social

The Government is positioning Australia as a global dumping ground for CO₂ and it's taxpayers who carry the risk The Australian Government is quietly reshaping national climate policy so that Australia can become a global dumping ground for carbon dioxide under the banner of “Sequestration Nation” and keep using...

This is why we picketed the Carbon Capture & Storage conference at the RACV Club today in Melbourne #australia #energy
#climate #pollution
It’s the gas industry latest piece of $hit$uckery so it can continue extraction.
#auspol
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Direct action is powerful

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'The new tobacco': The cities banning fossil fuel adverts Cities across the world are clearing their billboards of flight ads, SUVs, cruise ships and petrol cars in an attempt to cut emissions.

Cities worldwide are banning fossil fuel ads, from billboards to buses, as part of urgent climate action. Restricting “badvertising” shifts norms and limits industry influence on public perception.

tinyurl.com/yc2mh4ft #ClimateAction #Sustainability #ClimateHope #ClimateLeadership

Also, these companies very rarely pay for the whole program, just a small component with the rest picked up by parents, community and government...but the fossil fuel companies get to take outsized credit.

Fossil fuel companies love to sponsor programs for kids because it makes them look nice (while they keep being bad).

People then say that this funding is the ONLY WAY the kids could have these opportunities.

In fact, it's the easiest way (in the short term) and adults have terrible imaginations.

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor slumped in back seat of car trying to hide. Driving in front looks disapproving.

Hello. I would like to put in an order for this expression on the faces of fossil fuel executives charged with climate crimes. Thankyou.

Yes, I think that's a common one too. It's a slippery slope to utopia!

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Excuse number 4 can be broken down into two types.
4a) We'll show them the environment is nice and under threat so they'll want to save it

4b) We'll help them reduce emissions through technology

Finished my 5 Common Excuses for Fossil Fuel Sponsorship.
1. We do good things with the money
2. We all still use fossil fuels so it's hypocritical to criticise them
3. It's rude to say no
4. We'll help them be better
5. There's no other way

Any others come to mind?

Number 5 excuse: It's the only way
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Number 5 excuse for accepting fossil fuel sponsorship (and why I still think it's a bad idea).