This section is dedicated to our snowmen. Here you will find monthly news and blogs about the current snowmen condition worldwide.

We hope you enjoy and check back often to find out more about how our world impact theirs.

We are please to announce the arrival of a new snowman at the Orphanage! Benny was brought to us a few weeks ago and after undergoing a series of health checks, is now ready for adoption.

Having learned to communicate with humans at an early age, Benny is a very social snowman. He is very concerned with the snowman condition and is already joining forces with Rosie to help with our greening projects.

To adopt or to find out more about Benny, click on the link below.

BENNY

We are saddened to announce the deteriorating health of one of our most active snowman. Victo has developed a fever over the past few days, much to our alarming. He is currently being quarantined in an ice room as a preventive measure.

Any donation can help save Victo from a spring melt down. A one time $20 donation will help bring hope of cooler days and help us give Victo the proper cooling nutrients he needs to grow stronger. All monthly donations thereafter will insure a prompt and long lasting recovery and give Victo the chance to take part in green projects and leave his mark on this world.

To help Victo recover click on the link below

GET WELL SOON VICTO!

Here is a series of articles on our orphan snowmen. This idea came from two of our lovely snowmen here at the orphanage, Rosie and Sunny. They have gathered information on theirs and the other snowmen at the orphanage's hometowns and the effect of global warming on those particular areas.

CANADA

Sunny, from Pond Inlet , Nunavut

In Nunavut , the signs of global warming are everywhere. Sea ice is disappearing from the waters around Baffin Island nearly four times as fast as the rest of the Arctic . In the central region of the island, the Barnes icecap is one of the last remaining glacial systems left from the earth's last ice age. Like all glaciers, the Barnes Icecap is in rapid decline. "Something's not right,'' Sunny stated. "We used to get ice at the beginning of October. It's almost the end of October and it's still water."

ALASKA

Bilou, from Sarichef Island

Located in the Chucchi Sea just north of the Bering Sea, Sarichef Island is one of the world's most extreme examples of how climate change can affect populations. Due to the loss of sea ice, which had served to weaken severe arctic storm surges, Sarichef Island is rapidly eroding into the ocean. As temperatures rise, erosion increases due to softening of the Island 's permafrost. In recent years, the island has been losing area at a rate of ten feet per year. When asked to describe his home, Bilou looked around for a moment and answered, "Well, it's melting. Sorta like me, eh? This is my home and it's hard to see it disappearing"

ALASKA

Pia, from Copper Center

Copper Center has a long and rich history. The Athna people have called the Copper River Basin home for 5 to 7 thousand years. Later, the town became a mining supply depot. Today, many of the town's residents are employed in tourism related jobs that support Wrangell-St. Elias National Park , the largest national park in the US . But after a series of hot and dry summers coupled with unusually warm winters, nearly 190,000 acres of the parks forests were decimated by spruce bark beetle infestations. When asked about the situation, Pia looked around at the dying forest, unable to find the right words, struggling to hide her melting tears.

HIMALAYAS

Nimalie, from Dharamsala.

At the gateway to the Himalayas, the picturesque mountain town of Dharamsala is located in the foothills of the 15,000 foot high Dhauladar range, (see picture of Nimalie in her favorite playground). It is expected that increased glacial runoff due to global warming will cause flooding in much of Dharamsala's surrounding area. That is until the glacial fed rivers dry up. If current annual temperature increases continue, all Himalayan glaciers will be gone by 2030. Himalayan meltwaters are the source of Asia's biggest rivers, such as the Indus and the Yellow river . In total, the drainage basin fed by the Himalayas is home to more than 2.4 billion people, many of whom will find their lives disrupted by drought and flooding in the years to come. When we asked Nimalie to describe what was happening she worriedly answered "The Himalayans have always been kind and giving to our planet, to think all of this is disappearing is an alarming disaster"

GREENLAND

Victo, from Nuuk

Over 80 percent of Greenland is covered by ice sheets up to 2.5 miles thick. The weight of all this ice is enough to have depressed Greenland 's rocky inland area nearly a thousand feet below sea level. Within the last five years, scientists have determined that Greenland 's ice is melting into the ocean at twice the rate of 2001 levels. None of this bodes well for the world's coastal cities, which would all be inundated if Greenland 's ice sheets melt completely. When asked why he had to leave, Victor said. "I'm an active kinda snowguy but we snowmen have a hard enough time running I don't think I'll be learning to swim any time soon."

GREENLAND

Tango, from Ilulissat

Located near the Ilulissat ice fjord, Illusissat relies heavily on tourism. Moving at a rate of nearly a hundred feet a day, the Jakobshavn Isbraie glacier is considered the fastest moving in the world, and sends about 20 billion tones of icebergs passing out of the fjord every year. This is not surprising, considering Greenland's average temperature is increasing at twice the rate of Northern Europe . Making the best of a bad situation, Tango invented a new sport of "Iceberg surfing". He competed professionally for a few years until conditions were simply to warm and danger related to iceberg breaking became too eminent.

FINLAND

George, from Helsinki

In Helsinki the winters last 5 months and summer days are 20 hours long. In such a land of extremes, Global warming is more apparent than ever. To residents accustomed to snow-covered ground in the wintertime, the recent winters have come as a shock. When asked to comment on last years snowless holiday season George had this to say, "Well, um... with no snow on the ground the winter nights are quite dark which makes it hard to practice Icecicle hand balancing. And since the lakes aren't frozen over I can't go ice skating either. So all in all, it's quite gloomy. I'd like to be able to look forward to summers like everyone else but they've been getting so hot. I don't want to melt."

ICELAND

Tom, from Selfoss.

Selfoss, like almost all of Iceland 's cities, is located along Iceland 's coastline, where the waters of the Gulf Stream current warm the air. Paradoxically, while most of the world is under threat from global warming, Iceland may be threatened with the opposite problem. As Greenland and North America's glaciers rapidly melt, the sudden influx of cooler fresh water into the North Atlantic could disrupt or even reverse the flow that keeps Iceland and Northern Europe 's temperatures moderate. If this warm water current were to stop, Iceland 's average temperature would drop 10 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit, resulting in a new ice age that would make the island practically uninhabitable. This could be helpful to Tom, but the current instability of the climate is turning his home into a direct threat to Tom's survival. When asked to comment on the possibility of a new ice age, he replied, "It's all about balance. Too much cold isn't better for us either. If the island is inhabitable for humans, then there'll be no one to insure the reproduction of snowmen in Selfoss. Snowmen need people to create future snowmen generations, you know?"

NORWAY

Rosie, from Trondheim

The picturesque town of Trondheim sits at the end of one of the many fjords Norway is famous for. Carved by glaciers during the last ice age, the fjords are a major tourist attraction and source of national pride. But with temperatures in the Arctic rapidly rising, oil wealthy nations like Norway will be tempted to exploit newly uncovered petroleum reserves as the arctic ice cap melts. When asked about the wisdom of this, Trondhiem resident Rosie stamped her snowfoot angrily. "You mean drill for even more fossil fuel? When will people listen! This is what caused my family to melt in the first place!" She marched off, muttering, "What about our rights? What have we done to deserve this? If humans only knew..."

SWEDEN

Leon, from Sundsvall

In Sweden, the forward thinking government is among the world leaders in fighting global warming. The government has set a goal of becoming completely oil free by 2020. Ambitious as the plan seems, Sweden is well on its way to this goal. In 1970, 77 percent of the country's energy came from oil. By 2003, that figure had fallen to 30 percent, mainly replaced by renewable sources of energy. Like all countries north of the Arctic Circle, climate change has come to Sweden faster than expected. When interviewed about what his homeland was doing about climate change, Leon said "Even though it's too warm for me to live there anymore, I'm really proud of how my homeland is taking the lead in this. Maybe if all countries did this I'd have a glacier to live on again."

ANTARCTICA

Moineau, from Wordie Bay

Home to the planet’s coldest temperatures, it’s hard to believe but parts of Antarctica are warming at a rate more than five times the global average.  In fact Wordie Bay, where our intrepid Moineau hails from, used to be the Wordie ice shelf until it disintegrated completely in the late 90’s.  Such losses are becoming commonplace on the Antarctic Penninsula.  In 1992, the Larsen B ice shelf disintegrated in just over a month’s time, sending an estimated 500 million billion tons of ice into the sea.  While scientists agree that a complete melting of the Antarctic ice cap is unlikely, there is enough freshwater stored in the Antarctic ice to raise global sea levels by seventy meters.

Moineau is truly a snowman without a country, since the continent is governed by the Antarctic treaty system.