Predictions have been made, and we can check if they were correct, but maybe not at the moment. Some past short-term predictions, like predictions for 2020 mad

Predictions have been made, and we can check if they were correct, but maybe not at the moment. Some past short-term predictions, like predictions for 2020 made in 1990, may or may not be correct. We can look those up. Many other predictions are for what will happen in the coming decades, and we won't be able to assess with certainty whether they were correct until those future dates.