Reuters: The United Nations panel of climate scientists plans to tackle the way societies adapt to a changing climate and the effects of food insecurity in its next report on climate change, senior officials said on Thursday. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is currently selecting 600 to 700 lead authors from over 3 000 nominations to produce the fifth flagship report, due in 2014, said IPCC head Rajendra Pachauri. Earlier this year the IPCC said that …