The greenhouse effect

A moderate shower of rain in the early evening brought some slight respite to wilting plants and shrubs.
Slugs made a brief sortie while the ground was still wet.
Then , once, again, the setting sun suffused the sky with carmine.

Meanwhile a huge fire still rages on Saddleworth Moor in the north of England where the peaty substrate smoulders even when the flames  above are out. Environmentalist George Monbiot  suggests that if the moor were allowed to return to its natural state, instead of being preserved  as an open space for grouse-shooting, then  new-growth trees and bushes would retain water in their root structure and the terrain would be less vulnerable to  burning.