Conventional wisdom holds that partisanship and political ideology, writ large, are some of
the most powerful explanations of attitudes towards climate change and environmental
politics. While compelling, most studies focus on a narrow definition of political ideology in
the US. This study adds to the literature by assessing the relationship between populism,
climate skepticism, and support for environmental protection. Populism offers an orthogonal
dimension to partisanship and left-right self-placement, which broadens the scope of the …