Scientists today announced news that our Sun may be entering a period of hibernation, interrupting its steady, 11-year cycle of sunspot activity and resulting in cooler temperatures on the Earth. Terrestrial climatologists have been scrambling to interpret the new data and relate it to their current computer models of global warming. According to these scientists, the results are not encouraging.

"Greenhouse gas emissions by industrialized nations have been trending toward improvement over the past several years," said one researcher, adding "we're going to reach an interesting point given the news about the sunspots."