After Taylor Swift topped a list of the most carbon-emitting, jet-owning celebrities, her rep stepped up to say that, actually, it wasn’t Swift herself taking all those environmentally unfriendly trips.
“Taylor’s jet is loaned out regularly to other individuals,”Her representative said Rolling Stone. “To attribute most or all of these trips to her is blatantly incorrect.”
The “Celebs with the Worst Private Jet Co2 Emissions” list was put together by British marketing agency Yard, based on data from theCelebrityJetsTwitter account.
The jet-tracking account, which was started by a Florida college student, mostly shares stats on the jets of stars like Swift, Harrison Ford, Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise, so it’s not a “conclusive”List of all jet traffic as Yard noted.
According to CelebrityJets, Swift’s plane has racked up a total of 170 flights and 22,923 minutes in the air so far in 2022, which is 8,293.54 tons of emissions. This account receives its data from ADS-B ExchangeThe company bills itself as “the world’s largest public source of unfiltered flight data.”
The list also includes Jay-Z, boxer Floyd Mayweather, Alex Rodriguez, Blake Shelton, Kim Kardashian, Travis Scott, Mark Wahlberg, and Oprah Winfrey. “Climate criminal”Kylie Jenner was number 19 on the list. Her 17-minute flight inspired it.
Singer Drake also stood by his apparent plane addiction after he was accused of taking 14-minute flights in his Boeing 767.
“This is just them moving planes to whatever airport they are being stored at for anyone who was interested in the logistics… nobody takes that flight,”He spoke out about an Instagram post.
