I guess it would be too easy to take some of this money paid out in the name of climate change grants and Put it toward better technologies that can predict volcanic eruptions.
A massive eruption will really screw with our climate.
That's a point that has irked me for some time, and further, it seems to me we should be working on how to get through any of a number of potential global catastrophes, as we now know they DO or can happen: Major solar storms (Carrington event or bigger), major nuclear war, asteroid or comet impact, and we still only partially understand our cyclic periods of glaciation, one of which may be (if the pattern holds) just about due. (Some evidence suggests a longer interglacial this time around, somewhat similar to an interglacial that occurred 430,000 years ago, but the evidence is shaky at best, IMO.)
A massive eruption will really screw with our climate.
This seems likely, however, the really big swings in climate for the last several million years seem independent of the eruptions @ the hotspot now under Yellowstone during that period. Something to ponder...
(See Wikipedia's articles on Ice Ages and on Yellowstone. Before 10 million years ago, the record is uncertain enough to be, well, uncertain!)