Telegraph: For reasons best known to himself, George W Bush privately derided environmentalists as “green, green lima beans”. But he was often embarrassed to find them growing in unexpected places. Possibly his worst moment came when Angela Merkel, just installed as Germany’s youngest ever chancellor, came to call. The Right-wing former East German, he assumed, would be far less concerned about the environment than the Red-Green coalition that preceded her. So he suggested that they could ignore the …