The result was Delete. It's a biography of a living person. We err on the side of deletion in cases like this; I don't consider this negotiable. --MZMcBride (talk) 01:31, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Non-notable scientist and former NASA official.
I performed a thorough literature search and found that he has contributed to only 10 referred journal articles, with 4 as first author. I added these under the bibliography section in the article. His contributions did not significantly impact his scientific discipline, as most of them received less than 10 citations. He has contributed to a few books and NASA reports. Nor has he received academic honors, or been elected to any prestigious academic society. [|Talk page] discussion showed no one arguing that he was notable, or providing reliable sources that established his notability. Thus he fails WP:ACADEMIC.
It was mentioned that perhaps his tenure at NASA as "head of an important research project" should count for something. The organizational structure] of the NASA Earth Science Division shows that the head of the radiation and climate branch is quite low, and nobody else, save James Hansen, has a WP article. The person currently holding the post, Robert Cahalan, has had a much more distinguished career as a scientist. (See View all my Publications link on biography.)
His only claim to notability is that he has recently said he "disagree[s] that global warming is man made." The article also fails the more general biography basic criteria as there is no secondary sources independent of the subject. His claim to notability is based solely on emails sent to, and published by, the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Minority Page. Atmoz (talk) 07:39, 7 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hansen’s former NASA supervisor -- atmospheric scientist Dr. John S. Theon, who recently announced that he is skeptical of global warming alarmism -- recently wrote to Senate Environment and Public Works Committee staffer Marc Morano that, “Hansen…violated NASA’s official agency position on climate forecasting (i.e., we did not know enough to forecast climate change or mankind’s effect on it) … [and] thus embarrassed NASA by coming out with his claims of global warming in 1988 in his testimony before Congress.”
Commenting on another key deficiency in the manmade catastrophic global warming hypothesis, Theon also observed that “[climate] models do not realisti