I wouldn't say that.

• In 1959, Teller spoke, but nothing happened
• In 1988, we got congressional testimony from Hansen, but no legislation to speak of
• In 2008 we had cap-and-trade legislation, but it didn't get a vote in the Senate because supporters counting votes saw it couldn't get even 40 votes
• in 2022 the Inflation Reduction act passed, getting 50 + 1 votes in the Senate, after being converted in to an almost-all-carrots-no-stick type bill to appease the few Democrats who were being paid off by the fossil fuels industry.

We're on the right trajectory here, just not nearly fast enough