page_title: Kim Cobb
section_title: Policy and public engagement
hierarchical_section_title: Kim Cobb / Policy and public engagement
caption_attribution_description: English: Kim Cobb - PopTech 2010 - Camden, Maine
context_page_description: Kim Cobb is an American climate scientist. She is a professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Georgia Power Faculty Scholar. She is particularly interested in oceanography, geochemistry and paleoclimate modeling. Cobb is the Director of the Georgia Institute of Technology Global Change Program.
context_section_description: Cobb sits on the American Association of Advancement of Science Climate Science Panel, the international CLIVAR Pacific Panel and the international PAGES-CLIVAR intersection panel. She is on the advisory council for the AAAS Leshner Institute for Public Engagement.
  Cobb is an advocate for outreach with communities, and regularly lectures to schools, colleges and other public groups, on climate science. She has been involved with policy and is the writer of several public interest articles on climate change, trying to inspire other climate scientists to speak up in international debate. She has appeared on Showtime's documentary "Years of Living Dangerously". On Real Scientists, Cobb makes her case for studying the paleoclimate: "The instrumental record of climate is far too short to identify some of the most important changes in climate under greenhouse forcing. Paleoclimate data is coming to the rescue, looking at past droughts, extreme events, and sea level change". Cobb gave a presentation at the March for Science in Atlanta, Georgia, in April 2017.
  In February 2019, Cobb testified before the House Committee on Natural Resources for the hearing, "Climate Change: Impacts and the Need to Act." In this testimony, she described how the 2016 Pacific Ocean El Niño wiped out 90 percent of the corals in her study site, saying, "I had a front-row seat to the carnage." She underscored the severity and clear increases in the effects of climate change, noting that many scientists she talked with have been willing to collaborate with lawmakers on climate change.
caption: Cobb in 2010 speaking at PopTech
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