A representative for Swift told news outlets that she had purchased double the carbon credits required for her Eras tour before it kicked off in March, justifying her personal emissions.
"The excess credits means Taylor could have accounted for more than enough to cover her latest romance springing up in the middle of her sell-out tour, with her trips to support Kelce upping her carbon emissions alongside her planned tour travels," the representative said.
Carbon offsets are used by airlines and other companies in order to meet environmental goals of reducing net carbon emissions. But The Wall Street Journal editorial board argued that such offsets, what it termed as "climate indulgences," are mostly for show.
"They are a political creation that lets companies and countries—and now celebrities—virtue signal," the editorial board wrote. "If a manufacturer wants to claim it is reducing emissions, it can buy a credit rather than use less gas or coal power. Instead of flying commercial, Ms. Swift can buy credits to offset trips on her $40 million Dassault aircraft. Carbon offsets don’t significantly reduce emissions, but they do promote the illusion that a net-zero world is possible."
In 2023, Swift’s jet had an average flight time of only 80 minutes, and she created more than 1194 times more carbon emissions than the average person, even taking a 36-minute flight from Missouri to Nashville, according to the Reddit account.
Swift’s total flight emissions for 2022 totaled 8,240 metric tons, which is 1,185 times more than the average person’s total annual emissions, according to the report by Yard.
Fox News' Jeffery Clark contributed to this story.