Growing climate risks fuel surge in U.S. home insurance costs

Washington (AFP) - When Jack Hierholzer moved back to Pensacola in the Florida panhandle, it felt like a homecoming.  "My kids were born in Pensacola, and so we have a lot of friends in the neighborhood, we have some family here," he told AFP in a phone interview.  But less than three years later, he's thinking of leaving the city after seeing his home insurance premium more than triple to $6,500 -- due in part to the rising costs to insurers of extreme weather fueled by climate change. "I work from home full time, so I could live anywhere in the country where I have a high-speed internet conn...