Fear as leverage

Is it just me that sees Andrew Pendleton's words as being very similar to Colin Powell's warnings about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction?

Andrew Pendleton said

It's very clear from the Stern Review, from the latest scientific information, from the impacts we're already seeing in places like Kenya, that we need very rapid cuts in carbon emissions

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6158022.stm