Oprah Winfrey

Aircraft: Gulfstream G650

Tail numbers: N540W

Ownership: FAA registry shows N540W registered to Harpo Inc., Oprah Winfrey's production company

All-time CO₂: 598.3 metric tons (50 flights)

YTD CO₂: 173.5 metric tons (15 flights)

what 488.4 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 1,480,860 miles in a car (US EPA — avg passenger vehicle emits 404 g CO2/mile)
373.9 transatlantic economy round-trips (ICAO Carbon Calculator — economy JFK-LHR round-trip ≈ 1.6 t CO2)
27,194 trees working for a full year to absorb (US Forest Service — one mature tree absorbs ~22 kg CO2/year)
1,424.4 months of powering an avg US home (US EIA — avg US home electricity ≈ 5 t CO2/year)
charging your phone 74,783,425 times. Every day for 204,886 years. (US EPA — charging a smartphone ≈ 8 g CO2)
manufacturing 8,309 brand new iPhones from scratch (Apple Environmental Report 2024 — iPhone lifecycle ≈ 72 kg CO2e)
2,991,337,000 Google searches. You could Google "is my private jet bad for the environment" 2,991,337,000 times. (Google Environmental Report — one Google search ≈ 0.2 g CO2)
the carbon footprint of 166,185 cheeseburgers. That's 55,395.1 meals a day for 151.8 years. (Journal of Cleaner Production 2023 — one cheeseburger ≈ 3.6 kg CO2)
1,897.1 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 87,980,500 bottles of champagne. That's 7,331,708 cases. Pop responsibly. (Chemistry — 750 mL champagne contains ~6.8 g dissolved CO2)
enough CO₂ to fill 23,759,762 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)
2,441.9 human cremations. One flight = literally incinerating 2,442 people's worth of carbon. (Cremation Assoc. of North America — one cremation ≈ 245 kg CO2)
producing 2,991,337 eggs. A hen lays ~300/year. That's the lifetime output of 1,994 hens. (Poultry Science 2014 — one egg ≈ 0.2 kg CO2e)
657,437 hot showers. You could shower every single day for 1,801.2 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)
249,278 loads of laundry. Do one load a week and that's 4,793.8 years of clean clothes. (The Guardian / Carbon Trust — one 40°C wash + tumble dry ≈ 2.4 kg CO2)
42,733,385,714 human farts. The average person would need to fart for 8,362,698 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 1,821.2 years. One flight = a lifetime of being alive. (EPA — avg person exhales ~0.9 kg CO2/day)
1,414,344 avocados. That's 3,874.9 years of daily avocado toast. Remember when they blamed millennials? (Carbon Trust — one avocado ≈ 423 g CO2 (incl. transport))
brewing 1,196,535 pints of beer. That's 5,983 Oktoberfests. Prost. (Berners-Lee "How Bad Are Bananas?" — one pint of beer ≈ 500 g CO2)
fully charging a Tesla 23,554 times. About 6,359,535 miles of EV driving. They flew 1,480,860 miles instead. By jet. (US EIA avg grid — Tesla Model 3 (60 kWh) full charge ≈ 25.4 kg CO2)
keeping a pet goldfish for 23,931 years. The goldfish would die of old age 2,393 times over. (Univ. of Edinburgh — keeping one goldfish ≈ 25 kg CO2/year)
permanently melting 1,794.8 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 133.1 Olympic swimming pools. You could not swim in them. You would die. (Ideal gas law — 1 kg CO2 ≈ 556 liters at STP)

Flight History

Date	Route	Duration	CO₂	Sources
1/31/2026	KSBA → PHOG	4.9h	23.9 metric tons	View sources
1/28/2026	KBUR → KSBA	0.4h	1.7 metric tons	View sources
1/28/2026	KLAS → KBUR	0.8h	3.8 metric tons	View sources
1/27/2026	KBUR → KLAS	0.7h	3.5 metric tons	View sources
1/27/2026	KSBA → KBUR	0.4h	1.9 metric tons	View sources
1/26/2026	KSDL → KSBA	1.2h	5.8 metric tons	View sources
1/17/2026	KSBA → KSDL	1.2h	5.7 metric tons	View sources
1/16/2026	? → KSBA	1.9h	9.3 metric tons	View sources
1/16/2026	KSBA → ?	2.1h	10.2 metric tons	View sources
1/15/2026	KTEB → KSBA	4.9h	23.9 metric tons	View sources
1/12/2026	KSBA → KTEB	4.5h	22 metric tons	View sources
1/12/2026	? → KSBA	1.3h	6.4 metric tons	View sources
1/11/2026	KSBA → ?	1.4h	6.7 metric tons	View sources
1/6/2026	PHOG → KSBA	4.6h	22.6 metric tons	View sources
1/5/2026	KSDL → PHOG	5.4h	26.2 metric tons	View sources
12/20/2025	PHOG → KSDL	4.6h	22.4 metric tons	View sources
12/20/2025	KSBA → PHOG	5.1h	24.7 metric tons	View sources
12/14/2025	PHOG → KSBA	4.2h	20.6 metric tons	View sources
12/14/2025	NZAA → PHOG	7.6h	36.9 metric tons	View sources
12/12/2025	NZCH → NZAA	1h	5 metric tons	View sources
12/11/2025	YMML → NZCH	2.8h	13.5 metric tons	View sources
12/10/2025	YBBN → YMML	1.9h	9.3 metric tons	View sources
12/6/2025	? → YBBN	1.9h	9 metric tons	View sources
12/5/2025	? → ?	1.7h	8.1 metric tons	View sources
12/1/2025	? → ?	1.4h	6.9 metric tons	View sources
11/30/2025	PHOG → ?	0.7h	3.2 metric tons	View sources
11/29/2025	KSBA → PHOG	4.5h	22 metric tons	View sources
11/23/2025	KSAN → KSBA	0.7h	3.2 metric tons	View sources
11/22/2025	KSBA → KSAN	0.7h	3.2 metric tons	View sources
11/21/2025	KPBI → KSBA	4.8h	23.2 metric tons	View sources
11/20/2025	KBUR → KPBI	4h	19.5 metric tons	View sources
11/18/2025	KSDL → KBUR	1.1h	5.3 metric tons	View sources
11/12/2025	KSBA → KSDL	1h	4.7 metric tons	View sources
11/11/2025	KTEB → KSBA	5.1h	24.8 metric tons	View sources
11/9/2025	KVNY → KTEB	5.2h	25.2 metric tons	View sources
11/8/2025	KSDL → KVNY	1h	4.8 metric tons	View sources
10/30/2025	KSBA → KSDL	1h	4.7 metric tons	View sources
10/30/2025	? → KSBA	1.6h	7.9 metric tons	View sources
10/30/2025	KSBA → ?	1.7h	8.1 metric tons	View sources
10/28/2025	KORD → KSBA	3.6h	17.3 metric tons	View sources
10/27/2025	KSBA → KORD	3.2h	15.6 metric tons	View sources
10/23/2025	KVNY → KSBA	0.4h	2 metric tons	View sources
10/23/2025	KTEB → KVNY	4.9h	23.9 metric tons	View sources
10/21/2025	KCLE → KTEB	1h	4.8 metric tons	View sources
10/21/2025	KSBA → KCLE	3.7h	18.2 metric tons	View sources
10/19/2025	? → KSBA	1.7h	8 metric tons	View sources
10/19/2025	? → ?	0.2h	984.4 kg	View sources
10/17/2025	KSBA → ?	1.6h	7.7 metric tons	View sources
10/17/2025	KSDL → KSBA	1.1h	5.4 metric tons	View sources
10/1/2025	? → KSDL	1h	4.6 metric tons	View sources