Jeff Bezos
Aircraft: Gulfstream G650ER
Tail numbers: N271DV
Ownership: FAA registry links N271DV to Poplar Glen LLC, associated with Jeff Bezos per media reports
All-time CO₂: 117.1 metric tons (10 flights)
YTD CO₂: 0 kg (0 flights)
- what 95.6 average Americans produce in a month (US EPA, 2024 Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions (annual figure divided by 12) — https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/inventory-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-sinks)
- driving 289,946 miles in a car (US EPA — avg passenger vehicle emits 404 g CO2/mile)
- 73.2 transatlantic economy round-trips (ICAO Carbon Calculator — economy JFK-LHR round-trip ≈ 1.6 t CO2)
- 5,324 trees working for a full year to absorb (US Forest Service — one mature tree absorbs ~22 kg CO2/year)
- 278.9 months of powering an avg US home (US EIA — avg US home electricity ≈ 5 t CO2/year)
- charging your phone 14,642,250 times. Every day for 40,116 years. (US EPA — charging a smartphone ≈ 8 g CO2)
- manufacturing 1,627 brand new iPhones from scratch (Apple Environmental Report 2024 — iPhone lifecycle ≈ 72 kg CO2e)
- 585,690,000 Google searches. You could Google "is my private jet bad for the environment" 585,690,000 times. (Google Environmental Report — one Google search ≈ 0.2 g CO2)
- the carbon footprint of 32,538 cheeseburgers. That's 10,846.1 meals a day for 29.7 years. (Journal of Cleaner Production 2023 — one cheeseburger ≈ 3.6 kg CO2)
- 371.4 years of 24/7 non-stop Netflix. You could watch every show ever made. Twice. (IEA — streaming one hour of video ≈ 36 g CO2)
- the CO₂ dissolved in 17,226,176 bottles of champagne. That's 1,435,515 cases. Pop responsibly. (Chemistry — 750 mL champagne contains ~6.8 g dissolved CO2)
- enough CO₂ to fill 4,652,052 party balloons — except they'd all sink because CO₂ is heavier than air. Sad party. (Ideal gas law — 1 kg CO2 ≈ 556 liters at STP)
- 478.1 human cremations. One flight = literally incinerating 478 people's worth of carbon. (Cremation Assoc. of North America — one cremation ≈ 245 kg CO2)
- producing 585,690 eggs. A hen lays ~300/year. That's the lifetime output of 390 hens. (Poultry Science 2014 — one egg ≈ 0.2 kg CO2e)
- 128,723 hot showers. You could shower every single day for 352.7 years. But sure, you're the problem for leaving the water running. (UK Energy Saving Trust — 8-min gas-heated shower ≈ 0.91 kg CO2)
- 48,808 loads of laundry. Do one load a week and that's 938.6 years of clean clothes. (The Guardian / Carbon Trust — one 40°C wash + tumble dry ≈ 2.4 kg CO2)
- 8,367,000,000 human farts. The average person would need to fart for 1,637,378 years to match this one flight. (Duke Univ. — avg fart ≈ 0.5 g methane × 28 GWP ≈ 14 mg CO2e)
- what you exhale by simply existing and breathing for 356.6 years. One flight = a lifetime of being alive. (EPA — avg person exhales ~0.9 kg CO2/day)
- 276,922 avocados. That's 758.7 years of daily avocado toast. Remember when they blamed millennials? (Carbon Trust — one avocado ≈ 423 g CO2 (incl. transport))
- brewing 234,276 pints of beer. That's 1,171 Oktoberfests. Prost. (Berners-Lee "How Bad Are Bananas?" — one pint of beer ≈ 500 g CO2)
- fully charging a Tesla 4,612 times. About 1,245,168 miles of EV driving. They flew 289,946 miles instead. By jet. (US EIA avg grid — Tesla Model 3 (60 kWh) full charge ≈ 25.4 kg CO2)
- keeping a pet goldfish for 4,686 years. The goldfish would die of old age 469 times over. (Univ. of Edinburgh — keeping one goldfish ≈ 25 kg CO2/year)
- permanently melting 351.4 m² of Arctic sea ice. Every flight, a little more ice just... gone. (Science 2016 (Notz & Stroeve) — 1 ton CO2 melts ~3 m² Arctic sea ice)
- enough CO₂ gas to fill 26.1 Olympic swimming pools. You could not swim in them. You would die. (Ideal gas law — 1 kg CO2 ≈ 556 liters at STP)
Their Climate Quotes
"We can have both a growing economy and a healthy planet. I've pledged $10 billion to fight climate change through the Bezos Earth Fund."
— Jeff Bezos Instagram announcement of Bezos Earth Fund, 2020 (source)
Flight History
| Date | Route | Duration | CO₂ | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/9/2025 | KHOU → ? | 1.5h | 7.2 metric tons | View sources |
| 10/27/2025 | KBNA → KHOU | 1.5h | 7.3 metric tons | View sources |
| 10/26/2025 | KHOU → KBNA | 1.3h | 6.4 metric tons | View sources |
| 10/18/2025 | ? → KHOU | 1.8h | 8.6 metric tons | View sources |
| 10/14/2025 | ? → ? | 1.9h | 9.2 metric tons | View sources |
| 10/14/2025 | ? → ? | 0.8h | 3.9 metric tons | View sources |
| 10/9/2025 | ? → ? | 0.9h | 4.4 metric tons | View sources |
| 10/9/2025 | KHOU → ? | 2.8h | 13.2 metric tons | View sources |
| 10/5/2025 | LFMN → KHOU | 10.7h | 51.2 metric tons | View sources |
| 10/1/2025 | LFPG → LFMN | 1.2h | 5.7 metric tons | View sources |