But amid a snow storm in New York, the Dutch tree event was moved indoors to the UN Security Council stakeout. Inner City Press streamed Periscope of the set-up, here, and of the event itself, to the end, here.

Guterres had a prepared speech, handed to him by a staffer, which twice referred to “grassroots,” had a no longer apt reference to getting his hands dirty, and peaked with the observation that trees die standing up - with dignity. (This from the head of an organization which physically removed the investigative Press for pursuing the Ng Lap Seng UN bribery story into the UN Press Briefing Room, audio here with UN Security grabbing the Periscope phone and saying, Now you are a trespasser. No response since, to this. - Inner City Press still restricted, no place to work, minders required.)

After Guterres' speech and a photo op (Inner City Press' Alamy photo here) in front of the picture of a tree, Guterres was led surrounded by security to the lobby in front of the Security Council, where he delivered positive remarks about the Netherlands' time on the Security Council.

When he was ushered upstairs - no other questions allowed, for example on the UN's inaction and/or failure on Myanmar, Yemen, Syria, Cameroon and elsewhere - UK Deputy Ambassador Jonathan Allen did the same, then Sweden's Deputy Carl Skau. While some might call it a snow job, you be the judge: Periscope video here.