HEILIGENDAMM, Germany — Leaders from the world’s eight major industrialized nations ‘accepted the latest scientific evidence’ of the dangers of global warming Thursday but set no targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. President Bush arrived at the Group of Eight (G8) conference Wednesday with a proposal that is similar to what the representatives embraced, despite a desire by German Chancellor Angela Merkel for hard targets. He proposed last week that the United States establish a new framework on global gas emissions to counter the effects of global warming. (Watch the leaders prepare to discuss climate change Video) ‘My proposal is this: By the end of next year, America and other nations will set a long-term global goal for reducing greenhouse gases,’ Bush said at that time. According to the communique agreed on Thursday, nations will stabilize, then reduce, greenhouse gas emissions and will ‘seriously consider’ plans by the European Union, Canada and Japan for halving emissions by 2050. Bush, who withdrew the United States from the 1997 U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, or Kyoto Protocol, feels every nation should set its own goals. More than 150 countries signed the agreement, which mandates limits […]