According to latest analysis looking at the dangers shown by global warming, some of the most impressive areas of natural attractiveness in Britain are at risk from the fires just like that led to devastation in Greece this summer, and spoiling the whole of tourism season.

According to firefighters the number of forest, heath and grass fires in the UK has gone up by 60 per cent in twenty years as longer, close summers have produced tinder-dry situations. Contrarily, at the time of humid summers, an increase risk of flooding has been another major reason for firefighters' worry. Figures reveal that the average land temperature has gone up by 1C since the nineteenth century.

the Fire Brigades Union is now saying that with its associates being told to deal with outdoor fires and flooding, their capacity to handle burning structures is depressed, which could bring risk to lives.

Sean Cahill of the union said, "Tackling these sorts of fires or flooding is becoming a huge part of our job. The rise in the threat posed by global warming is unprecedented and it's out of our control. We believe these threats posed by extreme weather are going to increase".

An FBU analysis of government figures said that in Britain, on an average, the number of grassland and heathland fires was 37,371 a year between 1986 and 1993. But, from 1994 to 2005 the average grew to 60,332 a year.