Final Friday, analysts at advertising firm Yard revealed a report claiming that Taylor Swift's jet made 170 flights between 1 January and 19 July.
The singer's consultant has responded to the criticism of her use of personal jets.
Labelling Taylor because the "greatest superstar CO2e polluter of this yr to this point," it was alleged that her whole flight emissions for the yr are available at 8,293.54 tonnes or 1,184.8 instances greater than the typical individual's whole annual emissions.
The analysis claimed that she spent greater than 22,000 minutes within the air - the equal of 16 days.
However a consultant for the star claimed she shouldn't be solely accountable for the emissions.
In response, Taylor's spokesperson issued an announcement by which they insisted that the popstar had "loaned" out the plane to others.
"Taylor's jet is loaned out usually to different people," they commented to Rolling Stone.
"To attribute most or all of those journeys to her is blatantly incorrect."
Floyd Mayweather, JAY-Z, Blake Shelton, Steven Spielberg, Kim Kardashian, and Mark Wahlberg had been additionally named on the checklist.
In the meantime, Drake has additionally come underneath hearth not too long ago for allegedly taking quite a few brief flights in his personal jet.
Responding to the criticism, the Hotline Bling rapper claimed he wasn't on the aircraft on the time.
"That is simply them transferring planes to no matter airport they're being saved at for anybody who was within the logistics," he wrote within the feedback beneath a submit concerning the controversy on the Actual Toronto Newz Instagram account.
"No one takes that flight."
Stars jetting round 'like they're in an Uber'
Kylie Jenner, additionally on Yard's checklist of the most important superstar polluters, got here underneath hearth final month for allegedly taking a flight on her personal jet that lasted simply 17 minutes. She posted a photograph on Instagram along with her boyfriend Travis Scott in entrance of their separate personal jets that was captioned "you wanna take mine or yours?".
An automatic Twitter account that tracks the planes of celebrities posted the route of a brief journey on 12 July, attracting critics' consideration.
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Social media customers replied to the submit accusing stars of jetting round "like they're in an Uber".
The journey was roughly the equal of flying between Gatwick and Heathrow airports within the UK. Critics estimated that it generated round 0.24 tonnes of CO2.
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