Keywords: global warming, carbon dioxide burial, methane hydrates, methane retrieval, oceans, computers, ANSYS.

The paper describes two concomitant problems of much concern in the twenty-first century; namely of dwindling energy resources and of the effects of man-made climatic change, largely due to the over-production of carbon dioxide. The paper shows that these problems have occurred due to man's continuing requirement for a more comfortable life and how new methods in the deep oceans can be used to achieve this. The paper explains that man's requirement for a longer and more comfortable life is natural and as we cannot look back, the problems must be addressed; possibly by the skills of the scientist and the technologist.

Computers have already being used to predict global warming and the computer programs will have to be improved to make more precise predictions of global warming and to persuade more of the doubting population of the seriousness of global warming. Computers will also have to be used to predict the effects of global cooling, if humankind is successful in saving the Planet. Computers will also have to be used to design large underwater structures to withstand the massive pressures in the deep oceans, when they bury the carbon dioxide and also when they retrieve the deep-sea methane.

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