{"id":14873,"date":"2023-12-14T18:54:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T02:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14873"},"modified":"2023-12-14T19:01:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T03:01:30","slug":"beginning-of-end-for-fossil-fuels-the-end-for-rudy-giuliani-we-hope-bradcast-12142023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14873","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Beginning of End&#8217; for Fossil Fuels, &#8216;The End&#8217; for Rudy Giuliani (We Hope): &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 12\/14\/2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_COP28Dubai-GiulianiCourthouse_121423.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">This week in Dubai, the U.N.&#8217;s Climate Secretary declared &#8220;the beginning of the end&#8221; of the fossil fuel era. Also this week, in a D.C. federal courtroom, Rudy Giuliani&#8217;s attorney warned a jury that awarding a penalty of tens of millions of dollars against his client &#8220;would be the end of Mr. Giuliani&#8221;. Both sound good to us on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among our many stories covered today&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The last minute, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/cop28-climate-summit-negotiations-fossil-fuels-dubai-64c0e39e6ad54a98e05e5201a2215293\">final agreement<\/a> between 200 world nations at the <b>COP28<\/b> U.N. climate conference hosted by the <b>United Arab Emirates<\/b> this week, calls for a &#8220;transition&#8221; away from fossil fuels. It wasn&#8217;t the call for either a &#8220;phase out&#8221; or even &#8220;phase down&#8221; that many had sought. But it was a first. Including the first time in 28 years of such annual conferences that the words &#8220;fossil fuels&#8221; even appeared in the final unanimous joint statement issued by the parties. What does it all mean? It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/climate\/24000157\/cop28-climate-conference-uae-dubai-winners-losers-fossil-fuels-methane\">both good and bad<\/a>. We delve into some of the details with <b>Desi Doyen<\/b> today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>As the world was working toward moving beyond deadly fossil fuels, the disgraced, twice-impeached <b>Donald Trump<\/b> was campaigning in Iowa by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/donald-trump-gas-prices-iowa_n_657ad688e4b00e36d2d6589e?ncid=APPLENEWS00001\">lying to his supporters<\/a> that gas now costs as much as $8\/gallon, only cost $1.87 when he was President (during the pandemic in which nobody traveled and he helped nearly a million Americans die &#8212; though he didn&#8217;t mention any of that) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/trump-says-he-would-renege-3-billion-us-pledge-green-climate-fund-2023-12-14\/\">vowing to renege<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sustainability\/sustainable-finance-reporting\/us-announce-3-bln-into-green-climate-fund-sources-familiar-with-matter-2023-12-02\/\">U.S. pledge at COP28<\/a> to give $3 billion to the joint &#8220;Green Climate Fund&#8221; to help poorer countries leapfrog fossil fuels and transition straight to clean, renewable energy. He even vowed that he would claw it back if he was elected next year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>As to <b>Donald Trump<\/b>&#8216;s legal woes, the <b>D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals<\/b> is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/68073028\/01208579363\/united-states-v-donald-trump\/\">moving at &#8220;lightning speed&#8221; [PDF]<\/a> to hear (and almost certainly reject) the twice-impeached former President&#8217;s appeal on &#8220;absolute immunity&#8221; from the rule of law, in which he claims that he had the right to break any law he wanted while serving as President of the United States. On Wednesday, in a separate case related to defamation claims by writer <b>E. Jean Carrol<\/b> (who a court previously found Trump liable for sexually abusing), the <b>2nd Circuit Court of Appeals<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/24223452-carroll-v-trump-2d-cir-immunity\">rejected [PDF]<\/a> a similar immunity claim. In yet another courtroom in Manhattan this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-fraud-lawsuit-trial-new-york-15e652f08479d9c9153ede514a534c81\">testimony ended<\/a> in Trump&#8217;s <b>New York State<\/b> fraud trial, in which he and his companies and his two eldest sons have already been found guilty. The only question is on the penalties they will face. They are likely to be substantial, to say the least. The judge&#8217;s ruling will likely come early in the new year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In a different D.C. courtroom, <b>Georgia<\/b> election worker <b>Ruby Freeman<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/12\/13\/giuliani-trial-ruby-freeman-testimony-00131659\">testified on Wednesday<\/a> in the defamation damages trial against one of Trump&#8217;s sleazebag attorneys, <b>Rudy Giuliani<\/b> who, along with Trump, repeatedly lied about her and her daughter <b>Shay Moss<\/b> committing fraud while serving as election workers in Fulton County, Georgia in 2000 in the middle of a pandemic. Both Freeman and Moss were viciously targeted by Trump&#8217;s supporters after the lies were told about them, and Freeman offered <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnnaBower\/status\/1735034373496348692\">heartbreaking and harrowing<\/a> testimony on Wednesday about the horrific threats she received from Trump&#8217;s supporters and how their lives were turned upside-down in the bargain. Giuliani&#8217;s attorney, Joseph Sibley, didn&#8217;t even try to cross-examine Freeman. And, in his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnnaBower\/status\/1735321846592024771\">closing statement<\/a>, reportedly agreed that the disgraced former NYC Mayor&#8217;s behavior was appalling. His appeal to the jury was that Rudy is old, and they should try to remember that, decades ago following the 9\/11 attacks, Giuliani wasn&#8217;t as appalling.  The jury may be more likely to remember last Monday, after the first day of trial this week, when Rudy <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MeidasTouch\/status\/1734367978588913869?s=20\">repeated<\/a> his pathetic false claims about the two women in front of cameras on the courthouse steps.\n<p>Just like Trump on Monday in his NY fraud trial, after vowing to take the stand, Rudy didn&#8217;t. Both cowards and liars.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. District Court Judge overseeing the federal case has already determined Giuliani defamed the two women. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/jurors-will-begin-deciding-how-much-giuliani-must-pay-for-lies-in-a-georgia-election-workers-case\">only question<\/a> is how much Freeman and Moss will be awarded by a jury for their pain and suffering (they are seeking as much as $43 million) and for additional punitive damages. If it will &#8220;be the end of Mr. Giuliani,&#8221; as his attorney warned, it won&#8217;t come soon enough. But it&#8217;s unlikely to be the end. He still faces <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/TrumpRICOIndictment-Georgia-FaniWillis_081423.pdf\">criminal charges [PDF]<\/a> in GA for attempting to steal the 2020 election there; billion dollar defamation lawsuits from Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems; and a grotesque <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/may\/15\/rudy-giuliani-lawsuit-noelle-dunphy-sexual-assault\">sexual assault suit<\/a> by his longtime personal assistant, among other legal woes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A listener in <b>Amsterdam<\/b> writes in this week to correct us on a small, but important, error we offered this week regarding last month&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/netherlands-election-candidates-prime-minister-f31f57a856f006ff0f2fc4984acaca6b\">shocking electoral victory<\/a> in <b>The Netherlands<\/b>&#8216; parliament for the far-right political party of anti-immigrant extremist <b>Geert Wilders<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And, finally, Desi Doyen joins us again for <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14872\">our latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a> with a wrap-up of <b>COP28<\/b> in <b>Dubai<\/b>, and some very troubling news in the <b>Arctic<\/b>&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman-COP28Agreement-TrumpClimateThreatLies-FreemanRudyTestimony-WildersCorrection_121423.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in Dubai, the U.N.&#8217;s Climate Secretary declared &#8220;the beginning of the end&#8221; of the fossil fuel era. Also this week, in a D.C. federal courtroom, Rudy Giuliani&#8217;s attorney warned a jury that awarding a penalty of tens of millions of dollars against his client &#8220;would be the end of Mr. Giuliani&#8221;. 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