Taylor Swift's Rep Responds To Private Plane Usage Amid Backlash Over CO2 Emissions

Taylor Swift is responding to claims that she is at the top of the list of celebrities contributing to the climate crisis with private flights.

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The statement is coming just after a study that was released which found that the 32-year-old singer

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Had over 170 flights attributed to her plane, and 8,293.54 metric tons in CO2 emissions.

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According to a rep for Taylor, all of the emissions nor the flights should be attributed just to Taylor alone.

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“Taylor’s jet is loaned out regularly to other individuals,” a spokesperson for her tells Rolling Stone.

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“To attribute most or all of these trips to her is blatantly incorrect.”

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The study also said that the use of Taylor‘s plane to take these flights is 1,184.8 times more than the average person’s total annual emissions.

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