A study is viral on social media which states that Taylor Swift is the biggest culprit of CO2 emissions as the singer took 170 flights in total last year. However, the singer's rep hit out at the report and questioned the credibility of its data.
Taylor Swift Responds To Report Claiming She's Worst Celebrity Private Jet Polluter
By
Samantha in
Entertainment
On 31st July 2022
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Taylor Swift has been in the news for the past few days after a report was released by a digital marketing agency, Yard stating that the singer's jet made 170 flights only last year.
The singer's representatives have now responded to the claims.
This all started with Yard's report that compiled data about celebrities CO2 emissions.
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Swift was listed as the biggest culprit in the list. However, her representatives have hit out at the report claiming that the report holds no truth and infact the report has not been independently verified.
Still, the Yard stood by their study, announcing it on social media by saying that they'd "conducted a study on the worst celeb private jet CO2 emission offenders & the results are shocking."
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The report showed the time the celebrities spent in the air and the total number of flights they took, and the amount of CO2 their carbon footprint produced.
According to the agency for Taylor's jet that was 170 flights since January, with the agency going on to add that "Taylor's jet has amassed a vast 22,923 minutes in the air – 15.9 days. Quite a large amount considering that she is not currently touring."
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Breaking those numbers down further, the agency said: "Taylor's jet has an average flight time of just 80 minutes and an average of 139.36 miles per flight. Her total flight emissions for the year come in at 8,293.54 tonnes or 1,184.8 times more than the average person's total annual emissions. Taylor’s shortest recorded flight of 2022 was just 36 minutes, flying from Missouri to Nashville."
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The report itself is pretty intense, but the Wildest Dreams singer's rep criticized these unfound claims and said: "Taylor’s jet is loaned out regularly to other individuals. To attribute most or all of these trips to her is blatantly incorrect."
And the agency also seemed to concede to this point, putting a disclaimer at the bottom of their study, which read: "Yard is aware that this list is not conclusive to the biggest offenders, but the biggest offenders according to the data as presented on the CelebrityJets Twitter page.
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"Yard is aware this data is based on these celebrities’ planes, so it is not known if these celebrities were on all the recorded flights."