Taylor Swift’s crew defend singer after topping record of personal jet polluters

Taylor Swift has topped a listing of personal jet polluters, with the singer’s private aircraft having made 170 journeys this 12 months.

The chart was put collectively by UK-based sustainability advertising and marketing agency Yard, which compiled a listing of the “high 10 movie star CO2e offenders” based mostly on their non-public aircraft utilization.

Drawing on information from the Twitter account @CelebJets (which in flip will get its information from ADS-B Exchange), Yard’s report discovered that Swift’s aircraft has made 170 journeys since January, spending the equal of 15.9 days within the air.

Her flight emissions totalled 8,293.54 tonnes, which, per the report, is “1,184.8 occasions greater than the common particular person’s yearly emissions”. Her common flight time was 80 minutes, with the shortest flight, a stint from Missouri to Nashville, clocking in at simply 36 minutes.

Taylor’s crew got here to defend the singer in a press release, with a consultant telling Rolling Stone: “Taylor’s jet is loaned out recurrently to different people. To attribute most or all of those journeys to her is blatantly incorrect.”

Nevertheless, that didn’t cease the net backlash, with meme makers having a subject day over the findings. “Air pollution (Taylor’s model),” wrote one consumer, whereas one other shared a clip of a girl hanging out of a helicopter, writing: “taylor swift on her strategy to the grocery retailer.”

taylor swift on her strategy to the grocery retailer pic.twitter.com/iuK9OO6WLG

— 🐺 (@oliviatheehye) July 30, 2022

Air pollution (Taylor’s model)

— christan (@IWASTHELYGHT) July 30, 2022

Taylor on her manner again to chipotle after they forgot her guac pic.twitter.com/pTvTaQRjs8

— madeline 💌 (@normalmadeline) July 30, 2022

streaming Taylor Swift to assist her pay for her jet gas >>>

— ian (@itsianraymond) July 30, 2022

Boxer Floyd Mayweather got here in at second place, emitting 7,076.8 tonnes of CO2 throughout 177 flights. Jay-Z was third, clocking in at 136 flights and emitting 6,981.3 tonnes of CO2.

Others on the record included A-Rod (5,342.7 tonnes of CO2), Blake Shelton (4495 tonnes of CO2), Steven Spielberg (4,465 tonnes of CO2), Kim Kardashian (4268.5 tonnes of CO2), Mark Wahlberg (3772.85 tonnes of CO2), Oprah Winfrey (3,493.17 tonnes of CO2) and Travis Scott, who landed tenth place with 3033.3 tonnes of CO2 emissions.

Swift isn’t the one musician who’s confronted backlash for his or her non-public aircraft use, with Drake just lately being criticised after his non-public jet made a 14-minute flight. On July 23, CelebJets tweeted that the rapper’s aircraft had gone from Toronto to Hamilton — each within the state of Ontario. Per the publish, the 38-mile flight used 1,522 litres of gas, and was answerable for 4 tonnes of CO2 emissions.

Responding to the tweet, Drake mentioned: “That is simply them shifting planes to no matter airport they're being saved at for anybody who was within the logistics. No person takes that flight.”