Eleanor Thorne is the pseudonym of an atmospheric scientist on the Gulf Coast, near the landfall location of Hurricane Katrina. A native of the Southeast United States, she has experienced hurricanes and tornadoes for as long as she can remember and has been fascinated with hypercanes since graduate school. She has worked with NOAA, the Environmental Protection Agency, environmental nonprofits, and in national politics.

She is a classical liberal, a cat person, a baseball fan, and enjoys a nice walk on the beach.

As The Inheritors makes clear, she doesn’t like infotainment, pseudo-populism, or political extremism that much. She thinks real, serious (and really serious) problems call for real, serious solutions, and that such problems should n ...more

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The Inheritors: A Climate Fable

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"The 99-year-old family matriarch dies, and plenty of long-buried secrets return to life." That's one way to describe this book, but it's much more than that. In the opening chapter, a long-lost coffin for a baby washes up, and it becomes a metaphor ...more
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Eleanor Thorne liked Gene Dark's review of The Inheritors: A Climate Fable: "I very much enjoyed the flawed and interesting characters: Edward, Anne-Elise, Vera, Chelsea. I learned a great deal about climate science reading this, but there was never info-dumping that took attention from the story - the scientific background w" Read more of this review »
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Eleanor Thorne liked Skye's review of The Inheritors: A Climate Fable: "Wow! What an interesting book! This is a cautionary tale about climate change, a scathing excoriation of extreme politics on the right and the left, an intense and heartbreaking family drama, and a nail-biting storm story all wrapped up in the author'" Read more of this review »
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