Along with climate change, life is hotter and more polluted on Earth. Almost two decades after world leaders initially combined efforts to help resolve global warming, the planet is filled with more heat-trapping gases and people than ever before.

Diplomats from over 190 nations held talks on Monday at a United Nations global warming conference in Lima, Peru in an effort to introduce an international treaty they hope to forge next year.

The numbers indicate a real global climate change. Carbon emissions have increased by 60 percent, while global temperatures have risen six-tenths of a degree. The global population is now up to 1.7 billion people and the sea level has risen by three inches. Extreme weather events in the U.S. are up to 30 percent and ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are down by 4.9 trillion tons of ice.

Michael Oppenheimer, professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University, said in a statement, “Simply put, we are rapidly remaking the planet and beginning to suffer the consequences.”

Since the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, wild weather has been a particularly prominent trend, with over 6,600 significant climate, weather and water disasters around the world. Belgium’s Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, which tracks global catastrophes, indicates that these weather events have caused over $1.6 trillion in damage and have killed over 600,000 people.

According to Global Climate Change, the current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is very likely human-induced and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented in the past 1,300 years.