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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DEL Apr 10th 2007 8:06PM

Are there any Cleveland Indians fans who still believe in global warming? Four baseball games snowed out in April, so far. In the 1970's, scientists were predicting a new Ice Age by the year 2000. #14 is right. In the grand scheme of nature, humans are a fairly insignificant species. Planet Earth was here for millions of years before we showed up, and will be here long after we're extinct. Exaggerating our effects on this world is pure narcissism.

Jodi Apr 11th 2007 6:56AM

How many carbon credits will need to accumulate to buy back the O-Zone for my grandchildren? If John Travolta and Al Gore will kick in I will gladly leave my diesel VW home a couple of days a week. There are some things that in this era of excess that will not be for sale, like our planet's future.

Dan Apr 10th 2007 8:54PM

I wonder how many who have written to put John down drive 50/60 miles a day in heavy stop and go traffic for on hour or more to reach their destination would stop doing so to eleminate Global Warming. I truly doubt one in this group would. Get a life people. I think envy may play a role in these people. Traveling in any mode is as American as apple pie and ice cream.

Sam Apr 10th 2007 10:13PM

Wakeup people. Purchasing carbon credits is an old scam developed and used by Enron with power credits.
To date there are two known companies that sell carbon credits. Guess who ownes part of one of the companies. No other than Al Gore himself. Who said global warming is bad for business?