{"id":405356,"date":"2025-09-27T19:38:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T17:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=405356"},"modified":"2025-09-27T19:38:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T17:38:19","slug":"claim-aussie-climate-refugees-are-moving-to-tasmania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=405356","title":{"rendered":"Claim: Aussie Climate Refugees are Moving to Tasmania"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Eric Worrall<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Preparing for the climate apocalypse\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Australians are moving to Tasmania to escape climate change, but the island state is not immune<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Sophie Jaggers<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jack Taylor can still vividly remember the day when the air around him became too hot to breathe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was early afternoon and he was working as a tradie on a humid Queensland work site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was 1:30pm \u2014 still a couple of hours to go \u2014 and the foreman just said \u2018bugger this, it can\u2019t be done\u2019,\u201d Mr Taylor said<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI remember coming home and recounting what my experience was and how odd it was to feel like you couldn\u2019t breathe, you were just sweating so profusely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last month, Mr Taylor and his partner Anna Graham packed up their bags on the Sunshine Coast and moved to a small community in southern Tasmania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ABC issued a callout for people who have recently moved to Tasmania due to climate change impacts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are a few of the responses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe moved to Tasmania after building our dream house in Esperance, WA and suffered through what seemed an endless drought, and non-stop bushfire all within close vicinity of the property. We couldn\u2019t take it any longer and moved back to Tasmania for the climate\u201d \u2014 Andrew, Launceston<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe moved from SE Qld here for a few reasons but also concerns over rising global heating. A cool, wet temperate climate sounded rational, but even up here in a cold, wet, forested mountain valley we\u2019ve learned in the 7 years we\u2019ve been here that we are well and truly on the frontlines of climate change\u201d \u2014 Ben, Northern Tasmania<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI moved to Hobart from Brisbane due to repeated heatwaves and floods. I ran a business in QLD and was willing to start again down here\u201d \u2014 Edward, Howrah<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe job market in Tasmania is nowhere like the other big cities in Australia. The struggle is real, but life in QLD over the last decade in summer has become unbearable. I don\u2019t regret my choices\u201d \u2014 Anna, Huonville<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were sick of being hostages to air conditioning, going from home to work or shopping centres, unable to enjoy the outdoors for 8 months of the year\u201d \u2014 Anne, Geeveston<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-09-24\/australians-moving-to-tasmania-to-escape-climate-change\/105785996<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Tasmania<\/a> is beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People do move from Queensland<\/a> to Tasmania<\/a> sometimes. My cousin migrated from Queensland to Tasmania, he moved to Hobart around 30 years ago, and fell in love with his new home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Tasmania is sooo cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we visited Tasmania in December 2023, temperatures in the lowlands were in the low 80s, the sun was shining, and the views were magnificent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the week we visited, all the locals were talking about the unusual heatwave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite this \u201cheatwave\u201d, we still needed long trousers, especially in the morning and the evening. The top of Mount Wellington, which sits on the Northern edge of the state capital Hobart<\/a>, even in the middle of a Summer Mount Wellington<\/a> was freezing cold \u2013 near frost temperature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the time the weather in Tasmania is not as pleasant as when we visited. Tasmania has a lot of cold and rainy weather. The Tasmanian highlands are bitterly cold, even in the middle of Summer \u2013 despite being in a \u201cheatwave\u201d, we hit snow flurries on the highlands road back to Deloraine where we were staying, after visiting my cousin in Hobart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year saw some hot weather in Queensland \u2013 but most Queenslanders stayed put in Queensland. The population of Queensland is growing faster than the population of Tasmania, because the weather is better. Just today I met a recent arrival from the Blue Mountains near Sydney \u2013 she fell in love with Queensland\u2019s near perpetual beach weather on a holiday, and decided to make Queensland her home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So despite the ABC\u2019s attempt to make it look like climate change is driving a demographic shift to colder states, this is no more happening in Australia than it is in the USA. Warm lifestyle states like Queensland and Florida both enjoy strong population growth, and will continue to be a favourite destination for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Update (EW): A few more holiday snaps from Tasmania<\/p>\n\n\n

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James Boag Brewery<\/a>\u00a0in Launceston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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A\u00a0Lyrebird<\/a>\u00a0<\/s>peacock<\/a>\u00a0displaying its plumage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Cataract Gorge Reserve<\/a>\u00a0in Launceston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Update (EW) George Locock<\/a> pointed out I mixed up my Lyrebirds and Peacocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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