Fears for crops as drought hits northern Europe. Northern France has been on drought alert since Monday after seeing the same rainfall between February and early May as it would normally see in a month.

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1. Parts of northern Europe have seen their worst drought in decades in recent weeks, with farmers from Scotland to the Netherlands fearing the dry spell will dent harvests if it continues.

   Water shortages can stunt the growth of crops such as wheat, corn, rapeseed and barley, Nicolas Guilpart, a lecturer in agronomy at the Agro Paris Tech research institute, told AFP.

   Countries including France, Belgium, Britain and Germany have seen much lower levels of rainfall than usual in some areas this spring, leaving the soil parched and dusty.

   The unusually dry weather has already delayed the life cycle of crops that would normally have sprouted by now.

   Luke Abblitt, a farmer in eastern England, said he was “praying for the rain” as Britain suffers its driest spring in well over a century.

   The weather is going from “one extreme to the other,” he told AFP.

2. It’s only gonna get continually worse, and not just in some places, but **everywhere** on Earth, until we **stop** letting anti-science witch-hunting tinfoil-hatter death-cult **lunatics** run everything… 

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