Climate News: The scientific dilemma, is it toilet paper and potatoes or research? - it has to be both says Professor Matt King

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It comes as the federal government defends its level of funding for scientific research in the region but it's resisting calls to fund a second ice-breaker vessel to help carry it out - listen to Professor Matt King, the director of the Australian Research Council's Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science during an interview on the ABC Breakfast program - "'Emergency' Antarctica summit in Hobart amid funding uncertainty";

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