I am kind of curious as how crops could rot in the fields due to too much rain, though.

Let the rye (or wheat) get wet before harvest, and you can get ergot and mold and stuff growing on the grain.

Which can lead in extreme conditions to “loaves of bread, when cut, poured out a foul-smelling black fluid”. That sometimes being just a little ornamentation to unexpected behavior on the part of family and guests who’d eaten less icky-appearing bread.

Less severe cases of ergot caused by eating bread made with the contaminated grain could result in poisoning, causing nervous dysfunctions including pain, trembling and convulsions or fits. In some cases, this is accompanied by muscle spasms, confusion, delusions and hallucinations, as well as a number of other symptoms. (And you wonder why anyone would ever worry about witchcraft…)

Other effects on the peripheral circulatory system could even result in “gangrenous ergotism” with loss of ears or various parts of extremities of both humans and livestock.

Better to eat turnips.

I guess we can’t all have family roots in flyover country. /heh

That’s the beauty of it – Al Gore’s companies do not depend on the world getting warmer and the seas continuing to rise.

Instead, they depend on the politicians acting as if that were the case… regardless of the reality.