. Drought conditions are already causing Australian farmers’crops to fail Droughts could hit the country twice as often as now and could be more severe in key agricultural production areas,the Bureau of Meteorology and the country’s top science organisation,the CSIRO,said in a joint report. “Parts of these high-level projections read more like a disaster novel than a scientific report,”said Tony Burke,the agriculture minister.”Mr Burke also said instances of extreme temperatures,which currently occur once every 20 to 25 years,are forecast to happen once every one to two years by 2030 [...]