Time Magazine: The Bush White House was so profoundly hostile to action on global warming that during its eight-year tenure, one could have qualified as a “green progressive” simply by asserting that climate change was real. In 2007, under these circumstances — perhaps because of them — was born an unlikely alliance between Duke Energy, a North Carolina-based utility that depends heavily on coal, and the Environmental Defense Fund, which together with 30 other green groups and major corporations, formed …