The rise of authoritarian populism has disrupted the patterns of party competition in many Western societies. Related to this development, the current debates in the United States and European Union illustrate how empirical science on climate change may become intensely politicized, and all ambitious climate policies challenged in the contemporary political landscape. We set out an analytical framework with three ideal types of political strategies for opposing climate policies: climate science denialism, climate policy nationalism, and climate policy conservativism. Empirically, the article investigates populist resistance to ambitious climate change policy in the Nordic context, where countries have sought to assume global leadership in climate politics and have considerable public support for climate action. In an analysis of the evolving positions of populist parties in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden in recent elections, the article sheds light on the interconnection between populism and climate change policy.

威权民粹主义的兴起打破了许多西方社会的政党竞争模式。与这一发展相关的是，美国和欧盟当前的辩论表明，关于气候变化的实证科学可能如何变得高度政治化，以及所有雄心勃勃的气候政策在当代政治格局中都受到挑战。我们制定了一个分析框架，其中包含三种反对气候政策的理想政治策略类型：气候科学否认主义、气候政策民族主义和气候政策保守主义。从经验上讲，本文调查了北欧背景下民粹主义对雄心勃勃的气候变化政策的抵制，这些国家试图在气候政治中占据全球领导地位，并为气候行动提供相当多的公众支持。