Bryson holds a PhD in Meteorology, among other academic titles.
His accomplishments are many, going back to World War II when he and a colleague first identified the jet stream.
"Before there were enough people to make any difference at all, two million years ago, nobody was changing the climate, yet the climate was changing," Bryce told his interviewer.
"Little Ice Age? That's what chased the Vikings out of Greenland after they'd farmed there for a few hundred years during the Medieval Warm Period. What do they find when the ice sheets retreat in the Alps?" he asks. "A silver mine. The guys had stacked up their tools because they were going to be back the next spring to mine more silver, only the snow never went. It's [the climate] just getting back to normal."
"Do you believe a five-day forecast?" he asks.