The heat energy necessary to melt the recently reported 28 trillions tonnes of ices disappeared between 1994 and 2017 was estimated. This heat energy was compared to an estimate of anthropogenic heat energy released in the world during the same period. Both heat energies being, it was concluded that anthropogenic heat energy was sufficient to have caused the melting of a large part of the ices. Ice melting was not the only source of anthropogenic heat absorption. It is shown that interphase equilibria between ice-liquid-vapour physical forms of water acted as thermal buffers. If more and more anthropogenic heat has to be absorbed in the future, interphase equilibria will move from ice to vapour and clouds and climate perturbations should be enhanced. The role assigned to water interphase equilibria will be confirmed if ices continue to disappear increasingly while global CO₂ production decreases.