Recent, in geological terms includes the period since the last glacial maximum 22,000 years ago when initial warming was interrupted by the Younger Dryas cold period which came to a sudden end 11,700 years ago. This was officially the start of the current interglacial period, the Holocene, when temperatures warmed up until around 6 to 9,000 years – a period known as the Holocene thermal optimum.
Periods of warming and cooling have been the order of the day - there has been no extended period in the last 22,000 years when climate has 'stabilised' to a 'natural equilibrium state'.
The 'Modern Warm period' started sometime following the end of the Little Ice Age. Peak average global surface temperature was reached in April 2024.
Various agencies report stories that have mesages of alarm. For example 2025 is being headined as 'one of the hottest years since records began' although it marks a full year of a falling trend since the April 2024 'hot' peak.
This author of this website hopes to issue updates as new data becomes available.
Chapter 10 (pp 312-330) includes some detail about the satellite era from the end of 1979.