I agree with MtnClimber's post that we're in an interglacial warming period. However, I like to zero in closer and focus on the past few thousand years and see the smaller cycles within the current interglacial period. Basically most of human history (and pre-history) is in the current glacial period, which itself has warming/cooling cycles that each last about 1,000 years. The summary: our Modern Warm Period that we've been in for about 2 centuries is nothing bigger than the Medieval Warm Period (topped out at about AD 1300), Roman Warm Period (AD 300) and Minoan Warm Period (1100 BC).
Further still, warm periods are good things. Life is better in the warm periods because crop yields increase, rain patterns are more consistent, and there are less deaths by plague. We used to talk about the Modern Warm Period in good ways and appreciated that we didn't live in the Little Ice Age cooling period or Dark Age cooling period of our ancestors. That is, until the political class decided on a massive brainwashing campaign to make us hate the good things in life, including global warming.
Looking at a much longer time scale we are currently in an Ice Age period that has brief interglacial warming periods. Luckily, we are currently in one of those interglacial warm periods.
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