“Don’t confuse me with facts”—how right wing populism affects trust in agencies advocating anthropogenic climate change as a reality

Abstract Everyday public denial of anthropogenically caused climate change (ACC) has complex antecedents and exists on both individual institutional levels. Earlier research linked ACC to opposition formal science elites, perceived threats the industrialist capitalist order existing system properties. Research also suggest that trust in organizations is a key factor determining support or policies. In this paper, we explore possibility right wing populism anti-elitist attitudes fuel low environmental institutions. We surveyed representative sample Norwegians ( N = 3032) measure denial, how socio-demographic characteristics, institutions, toward elites immigration, as well attitude orientations. Results show lack institutions strongly associated with furthermore degree trust—or thereof—is partly function attitudes, migration views nature.