[2] While working for KNTV, Sussman attended graduate meteorology courses at San Jose State University.
While at KDKA, Sussman volunteered at local schools to teach children meteorological concepts, on behalf of nonprofit organisation For Spacious Skies.
[10] Sussman also won the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) award for best local weathercast in 1987.
[2] Sussman was the evening news meteorologist with Group W's San Francisco TV station KPIX from 1989 to 2000, where he won RTNDA best local weathercast awards from 1990 to 1995 and 1997 to 1999.
[2] At KPIX, Sussman also hosted a weekly five-minute segment called "Brian's Kids" that profiled foster children.
[9] Expressing a desire to spend more time with his family, Sussman left KPIX on December 22, 2000, shortly after the retirement of longtime anchor and local personality Dave McElhatton; Sussman joined Heidrick & Struggles as a recruiter in January 2001.
[8] During his senior year at Missouri in 1977–78, Sussman hosted an overnight Sunday talk show on local radio station KFRU.
[16] In 2009, Spocko again caused advertisers to withdraw from KSFO after posting audio of Sussman telling a gay caller: "your particular kind can't reproduce."
Climategate: A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam, which was published on Earth Day, April 22, 2010.
[26][27] In the book, Sussman argues that climate change is independent of human activities, contrary to the scientific consensus.
[28] Additionally, Sussman ties climate science to a Marxist redistribution of wealth to Third World countries.