🛢 Energy & Commodities risk-off · 3–10 years
A what‑if from the future

What if a disorderly carbon-price jump to $200/t abruptly reprices fossil assets?

NGFS Disorderly 'Delayed Transition' triggers a global carbon price jump above $200/t within a decade after a decade of inaction, abruptly repricing carbon-intensive equity and credit.

16%
our model probability
over 3–10 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 16% · 90% range 7–24% · 40 analogues · measured class agriculture 100% in 10 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — agriculture ≈1.9132/yr → 100% in 10 yr100%
Analyst prior · editorial share 16% of the class16%
Pooled · weight 87%16%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)16%
Published16%

The class rate is measured from our dated, sourced event library (decade-normalized Poisson — the full table is public at base_rates.json). The variant’s share within its class is the analyst’s editorial call, published so you can audit it. A wider range means thinner precedent. Full recipe: methodology · scored at Reality Check.

The butterfly cascade

How this trigger trickles across markets, left → right — the root shock, its first‑order moves, then the ripple effects. Drag any node; tap a market for its real price history.

Resolution timeline — how this probability is moving

Our model's odds (gold) over time vs the crowd's (Polymarket, blue), from the past toward the 3–10 years horizon. Each dot is a real macro event that nudged the probability — green pushed it up, red pushed it down. Tap a dot for the source. The gold path is an illustrative reconstruction anchored to today's estimate — real dated events, not a live re-estimate history.

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What it would mean

If this plays out, it is a risk-off shock. NGFS Disorderly 'Delayed Transition' triggers a global carbon price jump above $200/t within a decade after a decade of inaction, abruptly repricing carbon-intensive equity and credit. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Climate/crop supply ▲ · Credit spreads ▲ · Inflation surprise ▲ · Oil supply risk ▲ · Risk appetite ▼ — which propagate through our causal graph to the markets below.

If it happens — the markets it would move

Biggest moves first. Projected moves are cascade-model priors; hist A–B% = what comparable past events actually did (measured abnormal returns), and model prior · unmeasured marks markets with no analogue backing yet. Tap any market for its price history.

MarketClassProjected move
1Brent crude BRENTon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +1.8%
hist -1.36–+1.32% · other way -1.77% (n=12)
2WTI crude CLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +1.5%
hist -2.93–+1.62% · other way +1.81% (n=12)
3MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.1%
hist -2.3–+3.79% · other way +19.58% (n=12)
4Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.9%
hist -2.13–+0.47% · other way -4.36% (n=9)
5Energy sector XLEon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +1.1%
hist -0.19–+0.71% · other way +0.43% (n=12)
6Wheat WHEATon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.8%
hist -0.67–+0.95% · other way +0.17% (n=12)
7Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -0.8%
model prior · unmeasured
8Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.7%
hist -0.49–-0.17% · other way +0.29% (n=12)
9Corn CORNon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.8%
hist +0.14–+0.55% · other way +2.16% (n=12)
10Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.7%
hist -1.5–+0.27% · other way +3.09% (n=9)
11Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▲ +0.6%
hist -0.26–+1.62% · other way -12.65% (n=12)
12United Airlines UAL 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.9%
hist -1.77–+4.62% · other way +8.77% (n=12)
13ExxonMobil XOM 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.8%
hist -0.08–+1.2% · other way -2.12% (n=12)
14Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.6%
hist -1.4–+0.28% · other way +10.51% (n=9)

Probable recommendation

If the scenario above plays out, the probable cross‑asset positioning → a scenario‑conditional read, not personalized investment advice
Cash / hedgeRaise cash and hold the long hedges above; this scenario is net risk-off.
For a common-man portfolio: A typical stock-heavy portfolio is at risk. Consider trimming equities, raising cash, and a small cash hedge.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): United Airlines -0.9% · ExxonMobil +0.8% · High-yield credit -0.6% · Chevron +0.7% · Tech sector -0.6% · Delta -0.8%

Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did

Across 40 analogous events (overlap‑weighted), as abnormal returns — market beta stripped, so it's the event's own effect, not the market backdrop. Shown at 20 days (persistent) and 5 days (immediate); ↺ fades = the two horizons disagree. Confidence = consistency × sample × significance.

Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 Iran hostage crisis / US freezes Iranian assets 1979-11 1979 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1979-01 Israel strikes Iran — Operation Rising Lion 2025-06 Gold tops $3,000 for the first time amid tariff and rate-cut fears 2025-03 October 2024 Iranian ballistic-missile attack on Israel 2024-10 Saudi-Russia oil price war 2020-03 North Korea sixth nuclear test 2017-09 North Korea 'fire and fury' nuclear scare 2017-08 OPEC abandons output defense, opting for market share vs US shale 2014-11 Egyptian revolution / Mubarak uprising 2011-01 Soviet August coup attempt against Gorbachev 1991-08 Chernobyl disaster 1986-04 1986 oil price collapse 1986-02 Silver Thursday 1980-03 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 1979-12 Volcker Saturday Night Special 1979-10 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1978-12 Gold tops $4,000 and silver spikes past $50 in historic squeeze 2025-10 H5N1 bird flu record US egg prices 2025-04 China retaliates to Liberation Day: 34% tariffs + rare-earth controls 2025-04 Hezbollah pager and device explosions across Lebanon 2024-09 Gold tops $2,500 for the first time on Fed rate-cut bets 2024-08 April 2024 Iranian drone-and-missile barrage on Israel 2024-04 Ukrainian drone strikes hit Russian refineries, lifting crude and gasoline 2024-03 Niger coup d'etat 2023-07 Wagner Group mutiny against the Kremlin 2023-06 First Republic Bank seized and sold to JPMorgan 2023-05 Regional-bank panic deepens after Signature seizure 2023-03 ExxonMobil posts most profitable year for any US oil company 2023-01 August 2022 hot CPI 2022-09 Powell's hawkish 'pain' speech at Jackson Hole 2022-08 US-led 240-million-barrel SPR release answers the Ukraine spike 2022-03 Houthi drone-and-missile strike on Aramco's Jeddah depot 2022-03 Tin hits nominal record on LME above $48,000/t 2022-03 Russia invasion sends wheat to record high 2022-03 Burkina Faso coup d'etat 2022-01 Houthi drone-and-missile attack on Abu Dhabi oil sites lifts Brent to 7-year high 2022-01 Kaisa Group offshore default 2021-12 Turkish lira record low on rate cuts 2021-11
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.8% · 5d -0.2%74%30 0.36✓ matches cascade
AMD AMDSHORT-1.7% · 5d -1.2%72%34 0.35✓ matches cascade
10y yield DGS10LONG+16bp · 5d +7bp66%40 0.31✓ matches cascade
DAL DALLONG+2.6% · 5d -1.0% ↺ fades66%30 0.28⚠ differs
NG NGSHORT-3.1% · 5d -2.6%63%30 0.23⚠ differs
UAL UALLONG+4.5% · 5d -1.0% ↺ fades63%30 0.22⚠ differs
30y yield DGS30LONG+14bp · 5d +7bp61%40 0.21✓ matches cascade
CL CLSHORT-3.3% · 5d -3.2%62%30 0.20⚠ differs
COIN COINLONG+5.0% · 5d +2.5%62%25 0.20⚠ differs
Volatility VIXLONG+1.2% · 5d +3.5%61%31 0.19✓ matches cascade
INR INRSHORT-0.2% · 5d +0.2% ↺ fades63%30 0.19✓ matches cascade
BRENT BRENTSHORT-2.1% · 5d -2.4%60%30 0.18⚠ differs
NDX NDXSHORT-0.1% · 5d -0.8%62%33 0.18✓ matches cascade
TSM TSMSHORT-1.3% · 5d -2.4%62%30 0.18✓ matches cascade

Methodology. Probability and impact are anchored to history and scored against what actually happens — wins and losses, in public, at Reality Check. Crowd odds live from Polymarket & Kalshi. By Vikas Singh, Quantitative Strategist. Updated 2026-07-03.