Amid Taylor Swift‘s legal battle against someone who is tracking her private plane’s every move, there has been a lot of discussion surrounding the celebs who use private jets the most.
Taylor seems to be the celebrity who gets blamed for CO2 emissions from flying on private planes, yet a new study reveals she’s not even in the Top 30 of celebs whose planes emit the most CO2.
MyClimate.org, an organization that allows everyday people to calculate their carbon footprint, has released a list of the celebs whose private jets allegedly emitted the most CO2 in 2003.
You might be surprised by some of the names on this list, but one thing to note is that the celebs themselves might not be responsible for all the flights. As Taylor‘s rep explained when she topped the list in 2022, her plane is often loaned out to other people, so she’s not the one taking all of those flights.
30. Harrison Ford
CO2 EMISSIONS: 616,000 kg
FLIGHTS TAKEN: 36
KILOMETERS TRAVELED: 72,813 km
29. Tiger Woods
CO2 EMISSIONS: 635,200 kg
FLIGHTS TAKEN: 32
KILOMETERS TRAVELED: 48,754 km
28. Russia-based billionaire Suleyman Kerimov
CO2 EMISSIONS: 653,800 kg
FLIGHTS TAKEN: 9
KILOMETERS TRAVELED: 50,298 km
27. Kenny Chesney
CO2 EMISSIONS: 801,800 kg
FLIGHTS TAKEN: 117
KILOMETERS TRAVELED: 101,716 km
26. Social media star and entrepreneur Dan Bilzerian
CO2 EMISSIONS: 808,300 kg
FLIGHTS TAKEN: 28
KILOMETERS TRAVELED: 66,972 km
25. Drake
CO2 EMISSIONS: 1,140,800 kg
FLIGHTS TAKEN: 83
KILOMETERS TRAVELED: 87,700 km
24. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
CO2 EMISSIONS: 1,266,000 kg
FLIGHTS TAKEN: 30
KILOMETERS TRAVELED: 93,935 km
23. Blake Shelton
CO2 EMISSIONS: 1,437,200 kg
FLIGHTS TAKEN: 73
KILOMETERS TRAVELED: 119,083 km
22. Mark Wahlberg
CO2 EMISSIONS: 1,514,000 kg
FLIGHTS TAKEN: 72
KILOMETERS TRAVELED: 107,502 km
21. Golf legend Jack Nicklaus
CO2 EMISSIONS: 1,603,800 kg
FLIGHTS TAKEN: 59
KILOMETERS TRAVELED: 132,800 km
20. Race car driver Max Verstappen
CO2 EMISSIONS: 1,693,800 kg
FLIGHTS TAKEN: 119
KILOMETERS TRAVELED: 215,715 km
19. Tom Cruise
CO2 EMISSIONS: 1,711,300 kg
FLIGHTS TAKEN: 127
KILOMETERS TRAVELED: 201,548 km
18. Bagless vacuum cleaner inventor James Dyson
CO2 EMISSIONS: 2,173,100 kg
FLIGHTS TAKEN: 40
KILOMETERS TRAVELED: 161,171 km
17. Late Microsoft programmer Paul Allen
CO2 EMISSIONS: 2,271,900 kg
FLIGHTS TAKEN: 95
KILOMETERS TRAVELED: 168,596 km
16. Mark Cuban
CO2 EMISSIONS: 2,287,900 kg
FLIGHTS TAKEN: 109
KILOMETERS TRAVELED: 162,344 km
15. Jim Carrey
CO2 EMISSIONS: 2,398,100 kg
FLIGHTS TAKEN: 78
KILOMETERS TRAVELED: 198,480 km
CO2 EMISSIONS: 2,480,500 kg
FLIGHTS TAKEN: 119
KILOMETERS TRAVELED: 183,749 km
13. Floyd Mayweather
CO2 EMISSIONS: 2,484,700 kg
FLIGHTS TAKEN: 100
KILOMETERS TRAVELED: 205,811 km
12. George Lucas
CO2 EMISSIONS: 2,600,000 kg
FLIGHTS TAKEN: 93
KILOMETERS TRAVELED: 215,316 km
11. Alex Rodriguez
CO2 EMISSIONS: 2,668,400 kg
FLIGHTS TAKEN: 126
KILOMETERS TRAVELED: 220,969 km
10. Celine Dion
CO2 EMISSIONS: 2,826,900 kg
FLIGHTS TAKEN: 69
KILOMETERS TRAVELED: 200,893 km
9. Kylie Jenner
CO2 EMISSIONS: 3,073,100 kg
FLIGHTS TAKEN: 72
KILOMETERS TRAVELED: 218,304 km
8. Ukrainian-born British-American businessman and philanthropist Leonard Blavatnik
CO2 EMISSIONS: 3,130,300 kg
FLIGHTS TAKEN: 121
KILOMETERS TRAVELED: 232,126 km
7. Tyler Perry
CO2 EMISSIONS: 3,319,100 kg
FLIGHTS TAKEN: 78
KILOMETERS TRAVELED: 180,783 km
6. Steven Spielberg
CO2 EMISSIONS: 3,661,800 kg
FLIGHTS TAKEN: 120
KILOMETERS TRAVELED: 271,519 km
5. Bill Gates
CO2 EMISSIONS: 3,771,900 kg
FLIGHTS TAKEN: 112
KILOMETERS TRAVELED: 279,664 km
4. Beyonce and Jay-Z
CO2 EMISSIONS: 4,317,800 kg
FLIGHTS TAKEN: 144
KILOMETERS TRAVELED: 357,656 km
3. Elon Musk
CO2 EMISSIONS: 4,564,700 kg
FLIGHTS TAKEN: 150
KILOMETERS TRAVELED: 338,717 km
2. Kim Kardashian
CO2 EMISSIONS: 5,857,600 kg
FLIGHTS TAKEN: 165
KILOMETERS TRAVELED: 485,102 km
1. Travis Scott
CO2 EMISSIONS: 6,061,300 kg
FLIGHTS TAKEN: 137
KILOMETERS TRAVELED: 330,145 km