WPHPO: End of the World

I think this is the debut novel from Bauer. It's the first of a series in a 'destroyed world' type of story. Climate change is freezing the world into a new ice age, only some people escape. The book suffers from having everything explained in terms of numbers: how many people can fit in this spaceship, how large a volume needs to be to hold this forest, how much space needs to be given over to food manufacture, etc. He has a wide array of characters drawn from around the world who face orchestrating a rescue in the face of a rapidly advancing catastrophe.

It seems that Bauer is looking for hard scifi but his process gets in the way. I'll watch out for the second book as i would like him to succeed, the world needs more Aussie authors.