Taylor Swift is the world's most carbon polluting celebrity

Question

"Swift is the world’s most carbon polluting celebrity in 2022, per digital sustainability consultancy study. Their results show that Swift had flown 170 times since January that year, equivalent to 22,923 minutes in the air."

Answer 1

The statement that Taylor Swift is the celebrity who produces the most carbon emissions through flying seems to be true.

 I found an additional source that states, "Taylor Swift is receiving a lot of heat for the planet-heating emissions of her private jet.  Not only is Swift topping the charts but also comes first in the list of celebrities with the highest Co2 emissions from flying, according to an initiative tracking celebrities flying privately. Her private jet usage amounted to an estimated 8,300 tonnes of carbon emissions in 2022 – that’s about 1,800 times the average human’s annual emissions, or 576 times that of the average American and about 1,000 times that of the average European."

https://carbonmarketwatch.org/2024/02/13/taylor-swift-and-the-top-polluters-department/#:~:text=Taylor%20Swift%20is%20receiving%20a,initiative%20tracking%20celebrities%20flying%20privately.

Answer 2

This claim comes from a 2022 report by a UK-based company called Yard. They focus on digital marketing and sustainability and put together a list of the top celebrity private jet polluters using flight data from a Twitter account called CelebrityJets. That account tracks celebrities' flights using public records. According to Yard, Taylor Swift’s private jet flew 170 times in 2022, spending over 22,000 minutes in the air and producing more than 8,200 tons of CO₂ which landed her at the top of their list.

But the claim is a bit misleading. Yard isn’t a scientific or environmental research group, and their report has gotten some pushback for being vague about how exactly the data was calculated. Also, the flights are tied to her jet, not necessarily to her. A spokesperson for Taylor told Rolling Stone that her jet is “regularly loaned out to other individuals,” and said it’s not accurate to assume she was on every single flight.

So yeah her plane might have had the highest emissions based on this report, but that doesn’t mean she personally caused all of it. Context definitely matters here

https://weareyard.com/insights/worst-celebrity-private-jet-co2-emission-offenders 
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-father-alleged-assault-paparazzi-australia-1234976159/ 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/articles/c62jnlgvv73o 
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2024/02/04/why-the-us-leads-the-world-in-reducing-carbon-emissions/