(Headline USA) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., spent nearly half a million dollars to fly on private jets last year despite claiming that climate change is an “existential” threat that we have a “moral obligation” to face.
Between October 2020 and December 2021, Pelosi’s campaign paid Virginia-based Advanced Aviation Team a total of $423,707.62 for travel services for 10 different trips, according to records filed with the Federal Election Commission. Pelosi’s team also paid California-based Clay Lacy Aviation $65,457.23 in January 2021, bringing the total private jet expenses to $489,164.85.
Just three months after one of her private flights, Pelosi declared at the COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference that tackling climate change is a “religious thing.”
“I believe this is God’s creation, and we have a moral obligation to be good stewards,” she said at the time.
Experts have said for years that private jets are one of the biggest producers of carbon dioxide emissions.
“Flying on a private jet is probably the worst thing you can do for the environment,” climate change advocacy group Transport & Environment aviation director Andrew Murphy said in a June report. “And yet, super-rich super polluters are flying around like there’s no climate crisis.”
Pelosi is far from the only self-proclaimed environmentalist who enjoys jetting all over the world. President Joe Biden, who promised leftists he would make climate change a key priority of his administration, spent more than $15 million on private air travel during his 2020 campaign. And Biden’s own climate envoy, John Kerry, uses private jets regularly. In fact, he took a private jet to Iceland in 2019 to receive the Arctic Circle award for “climate leadership.”
Kerry has defended his jet-setting behavior, claiming it is acceptable because “it’s the only choice for somebody like me who is traveling the world to win this battle.”
