A Scottish scientist has been chosen to lead one of the world's most influential bodies on climate change. Professor Jim Skea, from Dundee, has been elected chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Last year, the head of the UN called her work a "red code for humanity". Professor Skea said he was "humbled and deeply honoured" to be elected IPCC chair. The scientist, a former physics student at the University of Edinburgh, is Professor of Sustainable Energy at Imperial College London and co-founder of the UK Climate Change Committee. He was elected in the second round by a vote of 90 to 69 and will lead the IPCC through its seventh assessment cycle.