I would maybe consider them Projections based on past observation and assumptions. Of course, the assumptions are the hard part because they can be used to try to be accurate, or to try to project whatever the "expert" is trying to project.
With global warming "models", it's essentially whatever the entity paying the grant wants the projection to be.
Agreed.
Just because a projection is not “Science” does not make it wrong or valueless.
I am just objecting to the overuse, usually by the LEFT, of the word “Science.”
I would say that most of our important knowledge and decisions are NOT based on “Science.”