Isn't it time for President Trump to change his climate & energy policies?

At the GOP convention, he bragged about promoting "American energy independence" and creating "good jobs" by deregulating the fossil fuel industry and encouraging fracked natural gas.  Yet he and others expressed great sympathy for recent victims of the Iowa derecho, the wildfires in California and Hurricane Laura in the Gulf -- for victims of climate-related disasters, in other words.  Which the fossil fuel industry's carbon emissions help to create.

This doesn't really make any sense, does it?  I'm not a Republican, far from it, but I know there are intelligent Republicans who understand how "greenhouse" gas emissions, mostly from the burning of carbon fuels produced by the fossil fuel companies, are making climate-related disasters more and more dangerous.

Maybe President Trump has made too many public statements about how great fossil fuels are to change his rhetoric now.  But can't VP Pence, or Mitch McConnell in the Senate, or Kevin McCarthy in the House, begin to downplay fossil fuels and promote safe, clean energy policies that won't cook the Earth to a crisp and damage lives and properties in California, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, and other GOP states?

Starrysky - I think you're partly right, but I don't believe he's pushing this enormously destructive energy agenda ONLY for his own personal glory.  He probably DOES believe greater fossil fuel production will "make America great again," and people like Jim (in the string below) agree with him.  The problem is that making America "great" through more fossil fuel use is a recipe for coastal sea level rise, bigger hurricanes, and disastrous wildfire seasons in the West.