High Flying and Global Warming Words Get John Travolta In Trouble

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Apr 5th 2007 at 6:02PM

John Travolta, seems to have forgotten one of the greatest truisms in life: those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. At the British premiere of his motorcycle buddy pic, Wild Hogs, Travolta took it upon himself to hold forth on the topic of the environment. The actor, who owns five planes and has a home with a private runway in Florida asked his fans to do their part to help tackle global warming.

This Is London calculates that the flying Travolta has done in the past year adds up to a hefty 800 tons of carbon emissions. Travolta made his comments after driving down the red carpet on a Harley Davidson. Travolta blamed his flying on the movie business and also said that perhaps we should be thinking about other planets and "dome cities" as possible solutions. He did admit that he is not the best person to lecture on the problem of global warming due to his love of flying planes. So far he has not done what other actors and performers (and Al Gore) have done and purchase carbon credits to offset his pollution.

In a related story, after leaving London on his plane, Travolta went to Germany for another premiere. While flying his private jet from Germany to New York, the Boeing 707 suffered "technical difficulties" mid-flight and he was forced to make an emergency landing at Shannon airport in Ireland.

Upddate: TMZ reports that there was never an emergency, that Travolta's plane made a routine fuel stop and problem with the #2 engine was discovered and a starter was replaced.

Tags: boeing 707, global warmng, john travolta, JohnTravolta, private plane

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philadelphonic Apr 5th 2007 7:53PM

All these celebrities who drive to their global warming rallies in a prius (whose battery's disposal causes more emissions than mr travolta's planes) at 80mph (and getting 25 mpg) need to shut up and act. And a carbon credit? Didn't the early Catholic church sell forgiveness from sin?

Graffitimonkie Apr 5th 2007 11:17PM

What is wrong with the Prius now? Seems like every time some solution comes up theres always some big shot who wants to shoot down progress.

Anyway, I don't blame John Travolta for adding 800 tons of carbon emissions to the environment last year, it definitely is part of his career to fly from place to place and in short amounts of time, horse back riding won't cut it for him. Nor will it work for CEO's and all of those, although they should fly coach with the rest of us whenever possible, if they have to make a meeting in under 10 hours its improbable that they can take public flights.

Buying carbon credit makes absolute sense, having to pay for their share of adding pollution, sort of like a luxury tax would be a great way to hopefully get into their heads about how much time they spend flying, by getting into their wallets they'll be more aware.

K Apr 6th 2007 7:31PM

No, he didn't make an emergency landing. He was on the ground for a regular fuel stop and upon departure, learned one engine had a bad starter. A new starter was put in. The crisis never left the ground and no celebrities were endangered at any time -- which he'll tell you directly.

Dottore Apr 6th 2007 10:47PM

No one has commented on the fact that he was flying a nearly-empty 707 around the world. Isn't that wasteful? I can understand if he were flying a plane full of his friends to a party, but to fly an enormous plane like that nearly empty sure is a lot of fuel and carbon dioxide per person. Maybe he should have flown first class on a commercial jet (celebrities do that, you know).

phyllis Apr 8th 2007 9:38PM

Does anyone really know what carbon credits are? They basically are no more than paying a kid somewhere around the world to plant a tree so Gore, Travolta, or the other "gods" of Hollywood can do whatever they want and flip off the rest of us.

The Truth Apr 8th 2007 8:24PM

Travolta is another hypocritical moron celebrity who thinks they can tell everyone else what to do without doing it themselves. As for "carbon credits", what a bunch of absolute bullshit. Buying your way out of being a major polluter by paying for planting a few trees is such a scam. How about these celebrity assholes taking the bus, flying coach, downsizing both the number and size of their houses, and "living green" like they tell everyone else to do?

doc silver Apr 8th 2007 11:51PM

John Travolta's head is so far up his aspirilla that he doesn't know his Barbarino from his Kotter. What he thinks about anything other than conning producers into continuing to bill him in B-movies is of little consequence to this world that i am amazed he gets even this much attention.

Johnnie Reb Apr 8th 2007 8:30PM

The same with all Hollywood celebrities. Do as I say, not as I do. A bunch of frauds.

Jon Jordan Apr 8th 2007 8:44PM

Al Gore has an enormous house and uses 20 times more energy than the average family, plus he flies around in his private jet all the time.
Purchasing credits is a crock. It doesn't reduce the pollution that he produces.
As for carbon dioxide, all living creature breath in oxygen and breath out CO2. Plants take in CO2, which they need to live, and emit oxygen. That's how the planet works.
Peta says the methane from animal waste is the greatest source. It's caused, according to PETA, by our raising animals for food. (Although I'm not a fan of PETA, this is an important observation.)

Mike Maser Apr 8th 2007 8:49PM

Typical. Sacrifice is only for the ordinary people, not for the elite. While the rest of us are condemned for buying anything larger than a Mini, or driving at all (how dare we) the folks with money, on both sides of the issue do what they damn well please. And of course, we have to listen to them, because 'we' don't know any better. Maybe this global warming thing is a fraud -- I mean, the people who preach that 'we need to do something about it' don't take it seriously, so why should the rest of us?

amanda Apr 8th 2007 8:39PM

John Travolta is another hypocritical celebrity telling people how to live while they are living "large" themselves. Just like Madonna tells people that 'money isn't everything', and meanwhile, SHE isn't lacking for anything. Paris Hilton, does a commercial,telling folks to vote, and meanwhile-she isn't even registered. Disregard everything celebrity's say; they are usually talking out of their own *****.

Greg Haller Apr 8th 2007 9:13PM

It's interesting to note that the term "carbon credits" were used on an idividual use basis. Originally, and still in use today, the "carbon credits" were created for the coal energy plants that couldn't afford, or chose not, to install emission scrubbers in their smokestacks, to eliminate, or at least, decrease their emmissions. Companies that had scrubbers installed, are allowed to sell those credits those power generating companies that couldn't or wouldnt install them, and couldn't burn low sulpher soft coal in their power plants. It also applied to those plants that had no scrubbers, but burn't a mix of soft and hard coal.

That so called solution to emmissions, was in my understanding, applied only to industries, even as wrong as it was. That individuals can also purchase those credits, tells me there is no reason for the EPA to exist anylonger, and perhaps it's time to eliminate them, and start over from scratch.

charles Apr 8th 2007 8:42PM

The celebrities are so full of it, they drive a prius to hide the fact that they heat and cool 25,000 square foot homes, fertilize and water acres of land and maintain multiple houses and fly to those locations.The vacation homes also use utilities and the prius makes them feel good. So much BullS###

Avice Apr 8th 2007 8:48PM

What, these CEOs don't have internet access? I have never met my CEO or even my immediate supervisor. Our last meeting was on a conference call. I burned no gasoline getting to work today--I just walked about 50 feet. My granddaughter 80 miles away wanted to talk to me earlier today but neither of us had to leave home to do it. Every time I go by an airport, I wonder why in the hell so many people think they HAVE to fly somewhere!

Marty Apr 8th 2007 9:14PM

I wonder if John Travolta would like to come to my house and shovel the 4 inches of "global warming" off of my driveway.

amanda Apr 8th 2007 8:55PM

I just want to say that #'s 4 and 11 make excellent points.

Smokey Searcy Apr 8th 2007 8:58PM

As a professional pilot who has 27 International experience, let me say this:
There are plenty of planes that travel worldwide, only one is needed.
An actor having 5 planes is like one of use having 5 cars, it's strictly for the ego.

Joe Hernandez Apr 8th 2007 9:10PM

I think all do as the fraud Travolta says & save the environment. Everyone should stay home & not drive to his furure films. Sorry John global warming has put you out of demand. No more millions to buy more jets.

Pam Hatkowski Apr 8th 2007 9:04PM

Buying "carbon credits"? What a bunch of hogwash!! I can't believe how many sheep out there are buying into this global warming hoax. If, indeed, it is warming, it is part of a natural cycle, not caused by us. How arrogant to think that we, mere humans, could cause something so monumental!

Barbara Apr 8th 2007 9:06PM

I have been a big fan of John Travolta for a long time. I hate to see him telling others how they should treat the environment when he continues to pollute big time, that's a snob.

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