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The Liberty Ledger FEBRUARY 2019 I S S U E 1 4 Cold Urticaria By: Samantha Brooks The winter is a hard time for everyone. The wind is constantly blowing, it snows, the roads are icy and it is bitter cold. How- ever, although everyone makes it clear that they don’t like the cold, there are a few people who can actually die from the cold. This is because of an allergy called cold urticaria. Cold urticaria is a very rare allergy, so not a lot of people believe it is a real thing. Unfortunately for me, I am one of the few people in the whole world affected by this allergy. foods and going in the pool. Before go- ing in the water, I need to ease my body From my own experiences, when it is cold in slowly. It takes about 20 minutes be- outside, I tell people that I can’t go outside fore I can dunk my head and enjoy my- because I have a cold allergy, but nobody self. I can’t be splashed or jump into the believes me. Instead, they just laugh and water because my body won’t be used say it’s not a real thing. They let me stay to the temperature. Also, whenever I eat inside anyway, but I still feel hurt that peo- frozen foods like ice pops, my lips begin ple won’t believe me. to swell and double in size. Basically, cold urticaria is the medical way Doctors all over the world are currently of saying “cold hives,” which is literally working to find a cure for cold urticaria. what the allergy is. Whenever I am out in Once they do, it will be a dream come the cold, I start getting red itchy hives true for me and all the other people out about two inches big. I get them all over there suffering from this allergy. Once my body and they are itchy and hot. The they find a cure, I will be able to play in reason why people like me can die from the snow, do this allergy is because when my body gets cannonballs in covered in hives, my throat can become the pool and eat swollen and I could have trouble breath- ice cream with- ing. out worrying about my lips Not only are people affected by the snow, getting swollen but I also get allergic reactions from cold ever again. The Liberty Ledger The Climate Negotiation Conference By: Zoe Gilson, Daphne Kam, Brooke Schenk & Trinity Mfocfa MCarthy Pictures by: Mr. DeJesus passing a On December 17th, Liberty held its fourth annual cli- law. mate negotiation conference. The goal was a temper- ature increase of only 2 degrees Celsius by 2100, and While partici- 100 billion in the global fund. pating in the conference, “It is a great and interesting way for students to apply students see what they learned about climate change, and see how how solutions they can make a difference, “ said Mr. DeJesus one are made on of the 8th grade science teachers. global levels, and how compromises need to be made in order The conference began with the participants going to for action to be made. other tables to negotiate with each other. When they would head back to their tables, they each had docu- “It takes a lot of time and preparation in order to ments opened stating what they still needed to do, make agreements, and that sometimes you have to and predictions of what the changes would make. We compromise what you want for the good of the rest interviewed Nicholas, who told us about the negotia- of the world,” said one of the participants. tion process. Throughout the negotiations, many had to switch “In the opening alliances and rethink deals in order to avoid a war statements, we with certain countries. It seemed as though be- learned each cause of India's unwillingness to negotiate, many other's goals. countries have decided to neglect allegiance, and We tell them declare war. what we want, and they ac- But even that isn't so simple. After war was de- cept or deny clared, other developing nations and the European our claim Union asked for support in the war, but they denied based on what because they still needed India for afforestation their country support. needs.” “I like this experience because it gives an inside After they had made deals, people in charge of the C- experience on what goes on in climate negotiations Roads Software such as Jackson P. would put all the between our nation and others around the world. It numbers and compromises into a graph showing how also gives us a chance to experience making deals the changes in things such as temperature and car- with other people and companies, “ says Taylor bon dioxide would decrease based on the deals. Fredric. “For example,” he said, “if I were to put in how much To make the scenario more real, there were also we would decrease the carbon dioxide each year, we parents posing as lobbyists, using candy to bribe would see how much the graph would go down.” the countries for money. The US and India did not take the bribes, while China, and Other Developing Like Mr DeJesus previously said, this conference Nations did. teaches the students about climate change but also how the world deals with it, and how it can be solved. Mr. DeJesus and Ms. Sylvester announced for the “ It taught me how the diplomatic process on how delegates to begin negotiating. One by one, the hard it is to pass things to stop climate change, and delegates came up and presented their final deci- how it’s been so hard for the world to come up with a sions. America delayed the process until 2040, The solution,” says Tyler. European Union said that they would have an in- crease in temperature by four degrees Celsius. This conference is teaching students how real-world Other Developed Nations gave 10 million dollars impacts are made, and that it is not as simple as just per year in the global development fund, causing a The Liberty Ledger Continue... The Climate Negotiation Conference By: Zoe Gilson, Daphne Kam, Brooke Schenk & Trinity Mfocfa MCarthy murmur closed with the US forgiving them 5 billion and add- amongst the ing 10 billion in the global fund, and afforestation up crowd. China to 30%. In return, India is adding 15 billion to the had an increase global fund. in 3.4 degrees Celsius by 2010, Other Developing Nations and India became allies. while India re- Anna Deer from the European Union commented on fused to contrib- their alliance. ute anything to the global fund. Lastly, Other Developing Nations had “For a few years, it will be successful, but eventually a temperature decrease of 2.3 degrees Celsius. they will lose money, so I don't think it's a long-term solution,” she said. This round ended with 30.3 billion dollars in the global fund with the goal of 100 billion dollars, and a global The European Union also says they will not go higher temperature increase of 2.3 degrees Celsius by 2100, than 2.2 degrees Celsius. 0.3 more than the goal. India has compromised to donate $25 billion to the There was a short lunch global fund. break and review of the first round before round China needs another energy efficient factory from the two started. But, before it UN. The US refused to do any more reduction rates started, it was an- with other developing nations. nounced that Other De- veloping Nations had European Union will give the found 20 billion dollars taken one of their bribes annually, while requesting one thousand dollars a from the lobbyist, as well year. as a bribe from India. “We’re contributing 26 dollars to the global fund,” Other developing nations joked Kyle Bullard from Other Developing Nations. approached India, telling them that they needed them The crowd laughed, and he corrected himself. to do more to contribute. They settled on collectively giving India giving 2.2% for $10 billion from the Euro- In the end, they exceeded the temperature increase pean Nation, and from the US, $25 billion. by 0.1 percent Celsius, and 89.6 billion dollars to the fund. They played around with the simulator trying to The US made a deal with the European Union, and change different categories to change the tempera- China stating that they would all prevent deforestation ture increase, but they saw how hard it really was. by 20%. Mr. DeJesus reviewed the goals, as well as real-life ways to stop climate change. Other Developing Nations called over their president because India proposed an alliance, but their presi- Many people think that climate change can be solved dent called the deal off. by simply one person recycling. And, while this does have a major impact, it takes many to sacrifice and European Union made a deal with China for 5 acres come to an agreement to come up with a solution. of land to promote afforestation, in exchange for half Otherwise, like what happened with India, war will be a billion dollars annually for 10 years. declared. The US attempted a deal with China, using a tech- nique many others did by plugging into the data into the C- Roads software, seeing which changes would affect the numbers they needed decreased. The US attempted a deal with India, first taking time to see their updated graphs.