Reuters: Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said on Tuesday the base year for a goal of at least halving global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 — agreed on by Group of Eight leaders on Tuesday — was “current levels”. That would appear to be at odds with the position of the European Union and climate change activists, who insist that base year should be 1990. Fukuda also said the G8 rich nations had agreed to set “ambitious midterm targets” for cutting their own emissions in order …