Both the guarantor and its CREATOR!
On Earth, for life based on carbon compounds, it could only be possible in the ocean if oxygen, with its remarkable physico-chemical qualities, were not there, a wizard of deliverance from the yoke of the all-destroying ultraviolet component of the Sun’s radiation.
And the Sun is the most ordinary star in the galaxy, a “yellow dwarf of type G 3”.
Hence the first and, I admit, not the last conclusion: Any “terrestrial” life in the universe, if it is based on carbon, requires an oxygen-containing atmosphere for its existence (with the possible exception of some anaerobic bacteria such as symbiotic nitrogen-digesting bacteria in nodules of legumes, as well as tetanus and gas gangrene bacteria), with a significant percentage of oxygen content.
Life on Earth originated in clouds under the influence of ultraviolet radiation from the Sun and lightnings and, having fallen into the ocean with rain, found in it a suitable and protective cradle for development. Unicellular creatures appeared – green algae, which, happily acquiring chlorophyll, began to use the light energy of the star to synthesize all sorts of complex organic molecules based on carbon. There was enough carbon dioxide in the water that was well soluble in it, which they used for food and, combining two atoms from it in different combinations with seawater and trace elements in it, created (now called) “ORGANIC CHEMISTRY”. But in the process of synthesis, it turned out that it did NOT REQUIRE such an amount of oxygen, they made do with one of its atoms and threw the other out, getting rid of their “waste products”, that is, “cellular urine and poop”! These atoms hung in a mixture of different gases that were repugnant to us, that is, in a kind of primary terrestrial atmosphere. And the whole thing was permeated with life-threatening (on the same carbon-based) ultraviolet rays. The algae didn’t give a damn because they were protected from this radiation by a layer of water. And the land was continuously and ruthlessly irradiated, and therefore any life that appeared on it was immediately destroyed.
A well-known fact of paleontology: Life in the ocean is much older than on land: The first plants appeared on it only three hundred million years ago. For a billion and seven hundred million years, there was no talk of any terrestrial creatures – they simply did NOT EXIST! Perhaps some creatures that never “stick out” of the soil could exist, but this, of course, is not a full-fledged living niche!
And that’s when oxygen began to show its wonderful properties: It, in the form of diatomic molecules, was split by powerful ultraviolet radiation (THEREBY ABSORBING THE ENERGY OF HARMFUL UV (ultraviolet) QUANTA, and built triatomic OZONE molecules! This is how LIFE-THREATENING quanta with a wavelength of 1850 Angstroms were captured and absorbed from solar radiation, and this is exactly the necessary resonant energy for the formation of ozone.
That is, it is NOT OZONE that PROTECTS life on Earth from deadly radiation, but oxygen, which, from the action of the quanta of this radiation, passed into the triatomic structure of molecules – ozone!
Well, what’s going to happen? – The green algae asked, – all oxygen will become ozone, and ozone dissolves in water ten times better than oxygen, not 4.9 liters in a hundred liters of water, but 49 liters in a hundred liters! “We’re already getting rid of one oxygen atom as unnecessary,” the algae will say, “and now this damn sun has started throwing into our cradle poison – ozone!” We can’t avoid throwing out oxygen, because the cycle of synthesis of organic molecules in us takes place, but ozone is a highly chemically active gas and is simply deadly for us!. What should we do, brothers?
They thought of it: They began to accumulate IODINE in themselves and these neutralized the ozone poison! But what about the solid ozone atmosphere? After all, the Sun burns incredibly and creates a HUGE NUMBER of ozone molecules, and its concentration, in theory, will grow uncontrollably and menacingly?!
AH, NO!
Ozone molecules turned out, fortunately for many living beings, to be extremely fragile and easily recombine themselves into ordinary oxygen!
And what happened?
And it turned out to be an ETERNAL self-renewing filter, an absorber of dangerous UV radiation. Harmful quanta are absorbed by oxygen molecules, triatomic ozone molecules appear for a SHORT TIME, which quickly become ordinary oxygen again, ready to absorb the incoming harmful ultraviolet quanta! If ozone molecules were as stable as oxygen, then solar radiation would make the atmosphere on Earth not nitrogen-oxygen-argon, but nitrogen-ozone-argon, and it would be very chemically active, downright murderously active. Ozone is biologically 3500 times more active than chlorine (in the sense of destroying microbes and viruses and harming multicellular creatures at concentrations of more than one millionth!). But, fortunately, it is not long-lived and quickly recombines into usual oxygen, and in such a much more “peaceful” atmosphere, it is already possible to live. And EVEN ON LAND, because with a sufficient concentration of oxygen in the air, it is enough in excess to catch ALL the dangerous UV radiation quanta and at the same time turn into ozone, which quickly recombines into normal oxygen! This is how it maintains the balance necessary for life on land. Algae have been working for a billion and seven hundred million years to create a sufficient concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere that prevents dangerous radiation from reaching land. If so, the land has also become an acceptable place for the development of life! And the plants on it also began to use the chlorophyll cycle, which is convenient for them, and as it releases unnecessary “waste” (excess oxygen atoms) and thus ensures their own breathing and self-defense from harmful short-wave quanta of solar radiation.
GLORY TO ANY GREEN LEAF, this wizard who allows us all to BREATHE, to feed on the organic molecules synthesized by him and, moreover, to protect us with the same excess oxygen emitted from the deadly ultraviolet solar radiation.
By the way, about the “notorious warming”. During the formation of ozone, a certain portion of the energy of solar radiation reaching the Earth is absorbed. This means that when ozone is recombined back into oxygen, it is released, contributing to the heating of the atmosphere. If we assume that the Sun did not emit more energy (according to its own internal cycles of the star’s life) in the visible and infrared ranges, but increased some of the hard ultraviolet radiation mentioned above, then the oxygen-ozone-oxygen cycle will “invisibly” release additional energy and thereby contribute to the heating of the entire atmosphere.
Another possibility, even more dangerous in the sense of overheating of the atmosphere.
“Catalysis” of ozone formation. I’ve noticed for a long time that ozone forms more easily and in large quantities in moist air than in dry air. This may also be due to the fact that water vapor in the air is a kind of “catalyst” for splitting oxygen molecules and converting them into ozone, or it requires less energy to “split” an oxygen ion from a water vapor molecule, meaning that longer-wavelength ultraviolet quanta also become ozone generators. Regardless of the specific answer to these two propositions, either one is suitable.
Let us consider the course of such a process in the atmosphere. For example, in the upper atmosphere, where high-energy quanta of hard solar radiation are still present, some increased (compared to the “usual”) amount of water vapor began to enter. Its specific gravity is noticeably less than that of air, so such a spontaneous process is quite likely. This increased amount of steam also increased the formation of ozone! Since ozone, recombining back into oxygen, releases the energy spent on its formation, this contributes to an increase in atmospheric temperature. In addition, ozone molecules absorb LONG-wavelength infrared radiation, thereby preventing it from being emitted by the Earth into space. Thus, the self-heating of the atmosphere begins and this process has POSITIVE FEEDBACK, that is, self-increasing. The warming of the atmosphere increases the evaporation of water from the surface of the seas and oceans, the amount of water vapor rising into the upper layers of the atmosphere (stratosphere) increases, which in turn increases the amount of ozone formed, and so this process increases slowly, but like an avalanche!
(As I have already written many times, carbon dioxide as a “heater” is completely unsuitable, because its concentration is 0.03%, that is, three molecules of carbon dioxide per ten thousand molecules of air. Three molecules cannot delay so much of the Earth’s thermal radiation for at least minimal heating. By destroying forests and poisoning the waters of the seas and oceans, THE PEOPLE are killing the true creators and defenders of life on Earth, as befits predatory superparasites, unable to think of anything else, except of two and only two activities: TO GORGE IMMODERATELY AND MULTIPLY INFINITELY!!!
So, again, carbon dioxide is not the cause of the warming of the Earth’s atmosphere.
And, here, the above options are quite workable!)
Faciant meliora potentes.
19 X 2026
