U.S. Shows Progress in Adapting to Warming, IPCC Finds

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report released yesterday affirmed that man-made warming is already here and called on countries to act immediately to curb emissions of heat-trapping gases and plan for changes that are now inevitable.

But while the second part of the IPCC's fifth assessment report spoke in stark terms of the effect warming will likely have on food supply, global health and the livelihoods of populations in every region of the globe, it did acknowledge that some governments have taken steps over the past seven years to harden infrastructure and plan for the future.

Among them is the United States.

U.S. Shows Progress in Adapting to Warming, IPCC Finds -- but Federal Government Remains Stymied by Politics