Taylor Swift’s team defend singer after topping list of private jet polluters

Taylor Swift has topped a checklist of personal jet polluters, with the singer’s private airplane having manufactured 170 excursions this year.

The chart was set alongside one another by British isles-based sustainability advertising firm Lawn, which compiled a list of the “top 10 superstar CO2e offenders” centered on their personal airplane usage.

Drawing on information from the Twitter account @CelebJets (which in convert will get its info from Advertisements-B Exchange), Yard’s report observed that Swift’s airplane has created 170 visits due to the fact January, paying the equal of 15.9 days in the air.

Her flight emissions totalled 8,293.54 tonnes, which, per the report, is “1,184.8 instances extra than the common person’s annually emissions”. Her regular flight time was 80 minutes, with the shortest flight, a stint from Missouri to Nashville, clocking in at just 36 minutes.

Taylor’s team arrived to protect the singer in a statement, with a representative telling Rolling Stone: “Taylor’s jet is loaned out consistently to other folks. To attribute most or all of these excursions to her is blatantly incorrect.”

Even so, that did not end the on the internet backlash, with meme makers having a subject working day over the results. “Pollution (Taylor’s edition),” wrote 1 consumer, whilst an additional shared a clip of a woman hanging out of a helicopter, crafting: “taylor swift on her way to the grocery retail outlet.”

taylor swift on her way to the grocery retail outlet pic.twitter.com/iuK9OO6WLG

— 🐺 (@oliviatheehye) July 30, 2022

Pollution (Taylor’s model)

— christan (@IWASTHELYGHT) July 30, 2022

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

— madeline 💌 (@normalmadeline) July 30, 2022

streaming Taylor Swift to assist her pay out for her jet fuel >>>

— ian (@itsianraymond) July 30, 2022

Boxer Floyd Mayweather arrived in at 2nd put, emitting 7,076.8 tonnes of CO2 across 177 flights. Jay-Z was 3rd, clocking in at 136 flights and emitting 6,981.3 tonnes of CO2.

Some others on the list provided 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 10th location with 3033.3 tonnes of CO2 emissions.

Swift isn’t the only musician who’s confronted backlash for their personal airplane use, with Drake a short while ago currently being criticised just after his personal jet made a 14-moment flight. On July 23, CelebJets tweeted that the rapper’s plane experienced long gone from Toronto to Hamilton — both in the state of Ontario. For each the write-up, the 38-mile flight made use of 1,522 litres of gas, and was liable for four tonnes of CO2 emissions.

Responding to the tweet, Drake said: “This is just them moving planes to whichever airport they are remaining saved at for any individual who was intrigued in the logistics. Nobody requires that flight.”