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This makes it necessary to examine the public understanding of climate change in everyday, informal minority discourses, looking at how they work for broadening societal space for \u201cquarantining\u201d the transformative potential of climate change meanings\/policies. For this, we analyze readers\u2019 comments on climate change articles from two Portuguese newspapers, drawing from the frameworks of neutralization techniques and meaning barriers. Findings show that although denial of anthropogenic climate change remains, discursive efforts concentrate on person-stigmatizing depictions of climate change actors, delegitimized as \u201celites\u201d in populist vocabularies, reflecting a consistent alignment between everyday discourses and those of the United States and European official far-right. 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