Taylor Swift is seen boarding at Hollywood Burbank Airport in Los Angeles in exclusive photographs obtained by DailyMail.com on July 5, just days before she is identified as the greatest celebrity polluter.
The images depict Swift flying back to the US after spending Independence Day in London comforting her boyfriend, actor Joe Alwyn, following the passing of his great-uncle.
According to a study published on Friday by British digital marketing agency Yard, based on a review of private plane flights logged by the automated flight tracker Celebrity Jets, the new photos only depict one of the 170 times her private jet was used in 2022.
She topped the list of famous people who pollute, according to the report.
Floyd Mayweather’s jet was just edged out by Swift’s to take first place. Jay Z, Blake Shelton, Steven Spielberg, Kim Kardashian, Mark Wahlberg, and Oprah Winfrey are among the other notables in the top 10.
Swift is visible in the photos obtained by DailyMail.com concealed beneath a huge black umbrella that a member of her crew brought to her while she was still on the plane.
Her entourage is seen disembarking from the aircraft and making their way to waiting gas-guzzling SUVs.
In response to the study, the singer of “Bad Blood” said that her frequent use of a private Falcon 7X plane was brought on by other people.
A Swift representative informed Rolling Stone that Taylor’s jet is frequently lent to other people.
It is plainly inaccurate to credit the majority or all of these travels to her.
It would seem that data from the flight-tracking website ADS B Exchange supports the assertion made by her rep.
Another aircraft with Swift’s name on it was being used to travel from her family’s residence in Nashville, Tennessee, to Groton, Connecticut, where she has maintained a house since 2013, while the singer and her boyfriend were in London for the funeral.
On July 2, that flight took place. Swift’s plane arrived back in Nashville that day. The same incident happened with the plane on July 6 and July 10.
The musician went returned to London at some unspecified time after leaving the US, according to online flight trackers.
The Shake It Off singer performed at the O2 Arena in the English city on July 21 alongside the pop rock band Haim, according to Pitchfork.
Swift’s jet is being tracked by ADS B Exchange as it departs London the following day. Swift was seen on Selena Gomez’s Instagram page on July 22 attending the former Disney star’s 30th birthday party in Los Angeles. The caption for the post said, “30, nerdy and worthy.”
In July, DailyMail.com stated that there were whispers that Swift was prepared to relocate permanently to London in order to be with Alwyn as reports of their engagement circulate.
The news was a vindication for Kylie Jenner, who earlier this month was called a “climate criminal” for publishing a photo of her and Travis Scott’s matching private jets.
Swift is the only celebrity on the list to have commented on the study thus far; according to ADS B Exchange, her jet is now parked in Nashville.
Kylie Jenner, who was criticised for both that event and another in which she chose to fly instead of drive 26 miles, did not even make Yard’s list of the top 10 celebrities who pollute the most, coming in at a dismal number 19.
Environmental activist Ian Borsuk commented on the report to CTV News Toronto, saying, “I think we need to have a dialogue as a society about whether we should be permitting these private flights to be happening in the first place.
“I think that may really be frustrating for some people,” he continued, “when, you know, they’re thinking to themselves, “Okay, well, I’m doing everything I can in my daily routine to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, like taking public transportation, buying local products, and things like that.”
Tomi Lahren, a contributor to Fox News, was another who harshly criticised Swift. She said of the latest report: “Imagine that—a liberal elite out-of-touch who professes to be a champion of the fight against climate change polluting the earth 1,185 times more than us common folk!
She said, “Now Taylor’s team claims that since she lent out her jet to other people, she cannot be held responsible for any of that. And? That doesn’t really matter, Taylor.
It’s your plane, and I’ll bet you’re “lending” it to other liberals who believe in climate change!
They are only “horrified” by climate change when it is caused by blue-collar employees busting their butts to make a living in the fossil fuel sector, according to Lahren’s analysis.
Their positions are disposable, but Swift’s personal aircraft isn’t! Wow.’ Swift has largely been mute on political and social concerns during her career, but in recent years, she has become more vocal.
In a 2020 interview with Variety, Swift cited climate change as one of the subjects that troubled her.
Swift hasn’t been on tour this year and only made two one-off appearances in 2022, in New York City and London.
However, the research discovered that since the start of the year, Swift’s plane had flown for 22,923 minutes over 170 trips, which, according to Yard, equates to 15.9 complete days of flight time.
According to Yard, her jet’s annual flying emissions totaled 8,293.54 tonnes, or 1,184.8 times higher than the annual emissions of the average human.
According to the analysis, Swift’s plane travelled 139.36 miles on average over an average flight distance of 80 minutes.
In a statement, Yard’s Digital Sustainability Director, Chris Butterworth, said: “It’s easy to get lost in the glitzy lives of the rich and famous, but regrettably, they’re a huge part of the CO2e problem we have with the aviation sector.”
According to study, there is a significant gap between the super-rich and the rest of us when it comes to flights, travel, and even general emissions.
“Aviation is responsible for 2.4 percent of human-produced CO2e every year,” he continued.
Even some of Swift’s ardent supporters voiced dismay after reading the story on her numerous flights.
On the r/TaylorSwift Reddit fan page, one Swiftie commented, “D**n, she’s been flying around A LOT.” What exactly is she doing that necessitates so much travel?
Another user on Twitter commented, “Going to get cancelled for this, but f**k Taylor Swift too, selfish as the rest of them.”
Floyd Mayweather, a legendary boxer, came in second on Yard’s list with 7,076.8 tonnes of CO2 emissions so far this year.
However, Mayweather’s jet has taken 177 flights so far this year, more than any other celebrity on the list combined. That works out to 25 flights each month, or almost one every day.
Rapper Jay-Z came in third with a jet that released 6,981.3 tonnes of CO2 over 136 flights. Alex Rodriguez, a retired baseball star, came in fourth place with 5,342.7 tonnes of emissions.
The fifth-place finisher was Gwen Stefani’s husband, country music star Blake Shelton, whose jet generated 4,495 tonnes of pollutants during 111 flights.
Kim Kardashian came in right behind Steven Spielberg with 4268.5 tonnes of emissions, placing him sixth overall.
Actor Mark Wahlberg came in eighth with a jet that released 3772.85 tonnes of CO2, and Oprah Winfrey came in ninth with a plane that released an estimated 3,493.17 tonnes.
Travis Scott, with 3033.3 tonnes of emissions, completed the top 10. However, with only 7.31 miles each journey, Scott’s aircraft had the list’s shortest average flight distance.
The study was in response to an Instagram post made on July 15 by Scott’s longterm on-again, off-again partner Kylie Jenner.
When Jenner uploaded a picture of what appeared to be her and Scott’s matching private jets with the caption, “you want to take mine or yours?” the internet erupted in rage.
Some detractors dubbed her a “climate criminal” after hearing that she had taken a 12-minute flight on her own plane for a trip that would have have required 40 minutes in a car.
On July 15, her flight took 35 minutes to travel from Palm Springs, near Los Angeles, to Van Nuys, within the city, close to her $36 million Hidden Hills estate.
The mother-of-two then boarded a 12-minute flight from Van Nuys to Camarillo in Ventura County, California, two hours later, according to CelebrityJets on Twitter.
According to the account, the Bombardier Global 7500 flew in just 17 minutes from Camarillo, California, to Van Nuys on July 13, two days earlier.
Later that day, her jet made a 29-minute fly from Van Nuys to Palm Springs in California.
Then, however, these famous people fly in their expensive private jets for trips that only last a few minutes and are frequently accomplished more quickly by car.
The eco-hypocrites have been exposed for their dubious environmental credentials on one website, with celebrities like Mark Wahlberg, Jay Z, and Steven Spielberg among those outed.
The travels were documented on Twitter under the account @celebjets throughout the past few months, with many of them taking less than 30 minutes from takeoff to landing.
Wahlberg’s plane flew across Los Angeles for only nine minutes, while Spielberg’s flight time was a startling 17 minutes.
It follows the social media page’s exposure of Kylie Jenner on a 12-minute trip across California, which led to irate eco-warriors calling her a “climate criminal.”
Despite the family’s frequent use of private aircraft, her sister Kourtney received a tremendous amount of anger from followers for writing about carbon emissions in February.
According to aviation experts, private planes should concentrate on “ethical travel” by utilising “carbon offset schemes.”
Short-haul flights of at least 10 minutes have the potential to emit one tonne of CO2 and burn up thousands of litres of gasoline.