Scorcher: The Dirty Politics of Climate Change is a 2007 book by Clive Hamilton which contends that Australia rather than the United States is the major stumbling block to a more effective Kyoto Protocol.

In the final chapter of the book Hamilton argues that "the Howard government has been actively working to destroy the Kyoto Protocol".

[1] Scorcher is an updated version of Hamilton's 2001 book, Running from the Storm.

Other books by Clive Hamilton include Requiem for a Species, Silencing Dissent, Growth Fetish, Affluenza and The Freedom Paradox.