There is a controversy between traditional geophysicists and those researchers investigating the "electrical charge" phenomena detected before and during earthquakes. One of the issues is the infrared (IR) emissions detected by earth satellites before earthquakes. Traditional geophysicists keep using the term "earth heating up" and argue that the "IR studies (including NASA satellite-based studies) are not credible and must be flawed since the temperature deviations are not explainable."
A paper has been submitted to eEarth, a new (electronic plus peer review) journal of the European Geoscience Union which describes how IR emissions have been detected at the surface of rock stressed in laboratory tests. The abstract noted the various spectrum changes in the IR emissions as loading increased but there was no actual surface heating. The abstract gave this conclusion:
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We propose that the observed narrow IR emission bands arise from vibrationally excited O-O stretching modes which form when p-hole charge carriers (activated in the stressed rock) spread into the unstressed portion of the rock to the surface, where they recombine and radiatively decay. The effect, stimulated IR emission due to hole-hole recombination, may help understand the enhanced IR emission seen in night-time satellite images of the land surface before major earthquakes known as "thermal anomalies".
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We know that "something" is responsible for producing what are termed "earthquake lights", in the visual range, and it is reasonable to suggest that this same "something" can be manifested in IR emissions also.
The various satellites convert their detected IR emissions to a "heat scale" before transmitting the information to earth, thus making it appear that the earth is heating up. To avoid the lumped "heat scale" it will be necessary to build equipment that will record and transmit information about the various IR emission bands observed before earthquakes.
Traditional geophysicists refuse to accept that individuals
outside of their specialty could possibly know anything about earthquake phenomena. They are unable to grasp the implication of IR emissions being created without the "earth heating up".
