Taylor Swift: Claims about private jet use 'flagrantly untrue,' says spokesperson

Spokesman Taylor Swift The American pop star has denied being responsible for “most or all” of the trips she took on her private jet after she was allegedly the most used celebrity ever. Yard Sustainable Marketing CompanyHe described the claim as “blatantly untrue.”

The Yard survey found that the Swift took 170 flights between January 1 and July 29, 2022, logging 15.9 days in the air with an average flight time of 80 minutes and 139.36 miles per flight. Total air emissions for 2022 were calculated at 8,293.54 tons – 1184.8 times more than the average annual total emissions.

“The Taylor plane is regularly loaned to other individuals,” the spokesperson told the Guardian, declining to comment further.

Yard collected data from Celebrity Twitter accountwhich automatically tracks specific aircraft, to highlight the “harmful impact of using private jets” after fans called on celebrities like drakeAnd the Travis Scott And the Kylie Jenner To take remarkably short flights at a time of profound climate crisis.

In July, Jenner, who is in a relationship with Scott, post a picture From their private planes to Instagram with the caption: “Want to take my plane or yours?” The Celebrity Jets Twitter account found Jenner’s flight later that day It only lasted 17 minutes.

drake Try to defend his use of a spacious private jet Boeing 767, worth $185 million, can accommodate hundreds of people. Adjust to his tastes – for a series of 20-minute flights by saying that the plane was moved to a storage location with no passengers on board. One fan replied, “Okay but this is worse, don’t you see how this is worse?”

While Scott scored 10th in the Yard poll, neither Drake nor Jenner appeared on the list of the 10 worst offenders. Swift was followed by boxer Floyd Mayweather, with emissions of 7076.8 tons of carbon dioxide, and Jay-Z, with 6981.3 tons.

Former baseball player Alex Rodriguez is fourth, country singer Blake Shelton is fifth, director Steven Spielberg is sixth, Kim Kardashian is seventh, Mark Wahlberg is eighth, Oprah Winfrey is ninth, and Scott is tenth.

Private jets emit more than 33 million tons of greenhouse gases each year – more than the country of Denmark. Low passenger loads mean they are five to 14 times more polluted than commercial airliners per passenger, and 50 times more polluting than trains. Only 1% of the world’s population is Responsible for half of emissions associated with aviation.

The CelebJets accounts on Twitter and Instagram are run by Jack Sweeney, a student programmer at the University of Central Florida who previously tracked the movements of Russian oligarch and tech mogul Elon Musk, who was said to have offered him $5,000 to stop tracking his movements. “The amount of time and dedication you put into it is amazing,” Sweeney Tell Bloomberg. “5,000 dollars is not enough to bring it down.”

“It’s easy to get lost in the dazzling lives of the rich and famous, but unfortunately they are a huge part of the CO2e problem we have with the airline industry,” said Chris Butterworth, Yard’s Director of Digital Sustainability. Aviation is responsible for 2.4% of CO2 emissions. produced by humans every year, and research shows that there is a wide gap between the super-rich and us in terms of flights, travel, and even general emissions.”

Yard stated that her research “was not conclusive for the largest offenders, but the largest offenders according to the data as presented in big success Gates on Twitter: “He said it was not clear if the aircraft owners were on each flight.