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POPSLatest global warming first: Climate refugees face mass exodus Last year we heard of Shishmaref , an Alaskan Inuit village that had to relocate, Puvirnituq, in Northern Quebec where igloos are no longer viable , but Bangladesh has 140 million people "Bangladesh is nature's laboratory on disaster management," said Ainun Nishat, representative of the World Conservation Union and a government adviser on climate change. As temperatures rise and more severe weather takes hold worldwide, "this is one of the countries that is going to face the music most," he said. Bangladesh is hardly the only low-lying nation facing tough times as the world warms. Scientists say it in many ways represents climate change's "perfect storm" of challenges because it is extremely poor, extremely populated and extremely susceptible.
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