Private Jets, Public Hypocrisy: How Climate Alarmists Just Reinvented Irony
10 hours ago Charles Rotter
Ah, the sweet scent of self-awareness wafting through the hallowed halls of climate orthodoxy. A new article from Nature titled “Private Aviation is Making a Growing Contribution to Climate Change” pulls back the velvet curtain on the jet-setting hypocrisy of the ultra-wealthy, and boy, is it rich. Literally. For years, skeptics like Michael Crichton have pointed out the glaring contradictions between the climate rhetoric of the global elite and their private jet-fueled lifestyles. Now, the same critique has oozed into the very peer-reviewed journals that once dismissed such observations as heresy.
The Study That Took Off
The Nature piece explores the carbon carnage of private aviation, quantifying the annual emissions of private jets at a hefty 15.6 million tons of CO2 in 2023. For context, that’s about the same as the yearly emissions of Croatia. Nearly half of these flights were under 500 km—essentially airborne Ubers for billionaires—and some were as short as 50 km. In one hilarious (or infuriating) twist, many jets weren’t even carrying passengers but were repositioned empty. Efficiency, thy name is not “private aviation.”
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