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A paper not containing predictions is not the same thing as its having no predictive power!

This paper makes a lot of predictions despite the lack of predictive power. Hence, it should not be taken seriously.

Since the 1970's the group producing it has made a lot of very wrong predictions out of the hubristic belief that they can reduce everything about life to a simple system of differential equations.

What? Maybe my brain isn't big enough to understand this, but I don't see how you could disentangle the two without getting into pedantry.

Paper may say you can use this methodology with data beyond the scope of the paper to make a prediction.

However it doesn’t actually do the work to predict anything.

Kind of like the difference between theoretical math and applied math.

Take a look, for example, at the timeline in https://xkcd.com/1732/. It contains (almost) no prediction, but once you have internalized the information in it your own predictions on the climate topic are likely to become a lot more powerful because better informed.

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