Global Warming - the new age religion?

A friend of mine writes with a quote from Boris Johnson, former mayor of London (as in England, yall): "Like all the best religions, fear of climate change satisfies our need for guilt, and self-disgust, and that eternal human sense that technological progress must be punished by the gods. And the fear of climate change is like a religion in this vital sense, that it is veiled in mystery, and you can never tell whether your acts of propitiation or atonement have been in any way successful."  What an interesting observation!  Of course it will be dissed by any GW advocate, all of whom have eschewed "religion" in any form.