Question

When ice melts what is happening? Where do you think the energy goes when it is not raising the temperature?

Answer 1

"An incredible magnitude of heat energy was already absorbed by the planet's water content, by what is referred to as latent heat of evaporation, and latent heat of melting. The thermal energy required for ice at freezing point, to become water at freezing point, involve no temperature change. This energy can therefore not be sensed by us for what it is.
The same principle is valid for changing liquid water into invisible water vapor, and they say that the vapor content of the atmosphere has increased remarkably. This latent energy of changing state, can also not be sensed by us for what it is. And we are talking about much more energy than nuclear bombs.
There is also another vast magnitude of thermal energy that cannot be sensed by us. That is for example the energy absorbed to change a billion tons of ice at -20 degrees centigrade to -15 degrees centigrade. ( A 5 degrees increase in ice temperature and just for example"