A small environmental party has been showing Al Gore's global warming documentary all over Finland - where recent mild winters have people worried - in the hope of a record result in Sunday elections.
Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen's Center Party is widely expected to win the election but some polls show the Greens on target to win a record 10 percent. That could give the environmentalists, who have been in earlier governments, a good chance of joining a new coalition.
``This has really helped us a lot,'' Heidi Hautala, a candidate for the Greens, said of the party's screenings of ``An Inconvenient Truth.''
The party is hoping to benefit from a growing concern about climate change in the Nordic country of 5.3 million, which has seen warmer winters in recent decades. A survey released Friday showed global warming has overtaken terrorism as the Finns' greatest worry.
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