Reid Bryson was a national pioneer of climate research and the founder of the University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s meteorology department and Center for Climatic Research.
One of the first climatologists to explore the link between human activity and the climate, he became one of the scientists skeptical of the near-universal belief in the human role in global warming.
Bryson, 88, died in his sleep at his home in Madison early Wednesday.